Trashing Ssmtp Killed Another Homemade App

bobber205 · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 561 Location: Oregon

A couple weeks ago, I was trying to setup mailman.

I was told that ssmtp was insufficient for that and that I should use postfix. So I unmerged smtp. Now fast foward to this week.
We had a homemade app that used the php mail() function to send emails. That is now broken of course.

Here's my question. Should I setup postfix and try to get the mail() function to work with that, or should I just reemerge ssmtp and do postfix later? Will simply reemerging ssmtp fix my problems?

Rob1n · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:17 pm Post subject:

The mail() function just uses whichever sendmail binary is in the path, so will work fine with postfix. Basic postfix configuration shouldn't take long (things default to sane values so it's just a matter of configuring the server-specific variables) so I'd recommend going ahead with that. Once it's configured & running then your PHP application should work again.