PHP: mail() not supported in this build

[acidreign]

Gday,

Dont know if this is something specific to gentoo, or just my machine, but while attempting to use the mail(); function in php, i get the above error.

After trawling through pages of documentation on the net, i found that this is a compile time option, that detects if you had sendmail installed (in /usr/lib/sendmail, i guess).

Although I didnt, but did have postfix installed. This still didnt fix the problem.

Does anyone else have this situation ? or is it just all in my shoebox.

Thanks

[Nitro]

I had this problem before when installing qmail after building apache + php. The solution was to create symlinks from /usr/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail to the qmail sendmail emulator. Then I deleted my config.status and recompiled, worked fine.
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[acidreign]

Thanks,

This has solved the problem.

[msroest]

The other option is to edit php.ini and point it at the qmail sendmail interpretor. php.ini is usually in /usr/local/lib/

[Nitro]