PHP, Mail and OSX Leopard

By
rp
– March 15, 2009Posted in: Web Development

I have been trying to get my old apps to send emails, but for some wierd reason I couldnt get it working out of the fox. If you have had similar problems, you can try out this.
Step 1: Update the hostconfig file.
Add the following line to /etc/hostconfig
MAILSERVER=-YES-

Step 2: Update variable myhostname in the file /etc/postfix/main.cf
Set the variable to your hostname, you might need to uncomment the default value.

Step 3: Find your php.ini file and update the sendmail_path and make it
/your/path/sendmail -t -i

Now open another terminal window and do a tail on the log file to see if you have any further errors.
tail -f /var/log/mail.log

You can start the server by running the following command:

sudo postfix start

The above changes worked for me, however you might need to investigate this a little more if you still have trouble.

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About rp

Architect for large, highly scalable LAMP applications and Technical Manager with special focus on metrics based continuous improvement of teams and products. Rajat has close to a decade of experience of a very wide range of skills related to infrastructure, middleware, app servers all the way to front-end technologies and software development methodologies including agile, iterative waterfall, waterfall as well as ah-hoc startup using the right approach in the right context to reduce time to market.