Guest Posted July 9, 2004 Share Posted July 9, 2004 Firstly I have to say this is a brilliant tool for ecommerce, great work and applause for the developers. I have setup oscommerce on SuSE 9.1 default install, all updates and patches done. I have installed Apache2, and php4, I also have sendmail installed (not postfix) The error I am receiving is: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /srv/www/htdocs/catalog/includes/classes/email.php on line 502 According to one fix I found I needed to recompile and install php4 after send mail is installed, which I did, I removed php4 and reinstalled sendmail. I then reinstalled sendmail from the suse installation interface(YAST) I then tried again to add an account, it failed as it did before with the error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /srv/www/htdocs/catalog/includes/classes/email.php on line 502 I have found that intermittently I can go to http://localhost/catalog/admin/ and select "tools" send email" and can get a successful message stating it has sent the mail, though it never arrives, if I retry I get the same failure above (error on 502). I then removed php4 for the suse installation interface and compiled php4 from source, this also gave the same error. I have rebooted the server and tried all with the same results. I have checked php.ini and added the line sendmail_path =/usr/sbin/sendmail this didnt help so I changed it to sendmail_path =sendmail Same results. Is there any resolution to this? I have pretty much exausted all my ideas. I would prefer to not compile apache from source if I can help it as the suse updater for 9.1 only works on apache2. Regards, DamienK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoot Posted July 9, 2004 Share Posted July 9, 2004 Damien - The only other advice I've found is to add the sendmail path when recompiling PHP. Usually this happens with RedHat installations of PHP compiled manuallyby a non-root user. What happens is that PHP configure does not find sendmail program in the PATH and disables the mail function. The solution is to rebuild PHP adding first to the PATH the directory where the sendmail executable can be found, usually /usr/lib/sendmail but that often that is a link to /usr/sbin/sendmail . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 ok, that sounds logical, but as a complete dunce how would I do that? configure --with-sendmail? Sorry to be so stupid, but this is a new zone for me, PHP is something I really need to pay a little more attention to. Regards DamienK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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