Problem: Php And Sendmail - Sendmail Times Out Problems with PHP and sendmail

[ivobrett 0]

Hi Guys,On other hosting service I have had major problems using the sendmail function (i.e. mail()) from php. Basically the script times out waiting for sednmail to return from the function call. Anyone else had this problem and is there a solution?

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Edited July 5, 2005 by microscopic^earthling (see edit history)

[guntaka 0]

Hai, The problem you are facing is not in PHP, but in your hosting provider. One reason is that you have no permission to use sendmail, second is that IP address si not in the list of allowed domains for the receiver.Check out with your host and check your script with other hostings.Then you will know what the real probelm is?hope it will help!!!!!!!!Sincerely yours,guntaka,http://www.qinf.org/

[Hercco 0]

My guess is that sendmail has been disabled but somehow mail() is allowed in PHP. So php tries to call sendmail but there's no reply (hence the timeout). If this is the case your host could disable mail() in PHP aswell. Other option is that sendmail isn't just working, because of heavy spamming or something.