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xirochanh
January 10th, 2011, 07:56 AM
I have an ubuntu box (server edition 10.10) installed on a PC at my home, behind a NAT - i guess, so I don't have a public IP as well as valid domain mapped to it.

Can I test the mail function of PHP? I like to test sending mail to yahoo, gmail...
I tried sendmail package, then the script take very long time to finish and got some errors like "no qualified domain name" in the /var/log/mail.err file.
Then, I tried postfix, which is supposed to replace totally sendmail. In php.ini file, sendmail_path is still /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i. The mail() function return true immediately but without any message received. If I change to sendmail_path to /usr/sbin/postfix -t -i, mail function return false. I don't know where to catch error log of postfix

Any suggestion for my situation is highly appreciated. I need to test all functions before putting my server into data center.

Thanks
mail2345
January 10th, 2011, 08:06 AM
Well, you could try to create a webmail account for the server and configure postfix to use that.
xirochanh
January 10th, 2011, 01:48 PM
Well, you could try to create a webmail account for the server and configure postfix to use that.

Not really catch your idea clearly. You mean I should register some mail account like hotmail, gmail... then use smtp their service to send, right? could I do like I can do with smtp service on IIS? so that I can send email with "from address" can be whatever I want.

I don't have knowledge about mailing protocol, but I find it simple to send mail with IIS SMTP service
xirochanh
January 10th, 2011, 01:52 PM
Can someone explain me basic concepts of sending mail or something help me have better understanding about my situation?
lykeion
January 10th, 2011, 02:37 PM
I've only experience with sendmail and PHP, not Postfix.
But you should look at the error log to see what errors you get, I think it's /var/log/mail.log
Maybe it's something easy like a missing required dir: http://serverfault.com/questions/109201/php-mail-not-working-with-postfix-on-ubuntu
Also the Ubuntu docs on Postfix is good to read: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
xirochanh
January 11th, 2011, 07:04 AM
I've only experience with sendmail and PHP, not Postfix.
But you should look at the error log to see what errors you get, I think it's /var/log/mail.log
Maybe it's something easy like a missing required dir: http://serverfault.com/questions/109201/php-mail-not-working-with-postfix-on-ubuntu
Also the Ubuntu docs on Postfix is good to read: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix

thanks, bro. I'll try