Re: [IBMiOSS] FW: PHP mail() getting sh: -t: not found

The mail() function in PHP needs a program that implements sendmail,
since it delegates the actual mail sending part to it. I assume you'd
just want SMTP, then msmtp provides a sendmail implementation that
works with PHP without being an entire mail server in of itself. I
think others might have packaged things like Dovecot if that's not
enough. You can grab them from repositories like QSECOFR. They need
configuration so they know where to send mail.

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commercially-supported version of community PHP. Among the things it
includes, there's a sendmail program (msmtp) packaged plus
documentation and expert guidance on how to use it.
https://www.seidengroup.com/communityplus-php-for-ibm-i/


On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 15:36 +0000, Hopkins, Matt wrote:

Good morning….

I have the open source PHP installed on my development box and have
successfully implemented SimpleSamlPhp that gets me logged into a
clients web portal. I am trying to add some error handling that will
send an email when something goes wrong. I have in my php.ini file
the SMTP, sendmail_from, and smtp_port set. Everything seems to work
fine, except I don’t get the email. I get an entry in the email log
that an email was sent, but in the error log I get:

sh: -t:  not found

I have searched the web but nothing specific to the IBMi comes up.
The one thing that seems to come up most for other platforms is to
add a sendmail_path entry in the php.ini file. I have searched for a
file called sendmail in the /QOpenSys area but none was found, so I
don’t know what to put in the sendmail_path setting.

Does anyone have an idea on what I need to do to fix it?

Thanks,

Matt Hopkins