getting php mail() to work with apache2/php5/debian

[lykwydchykyn]

I put together some php stuff on my test server with debian/php5/apache2. In our php.ini file, sendmail_path is set equal to the IP address of our SMTP server, and everything works great.

When I tried to put together a production server to actually serve the page, again using debian/php5/apache2, I couldn't get it to work. When I run a little test script it says:

sh: (ip of the SMTP server): command not found

As though it's trying to run the IP address of the server as a command. I've tried everything I can think of, even copying over the config files from the test server, but nothing seems to answer. Is there something I need to have configured to have the server IP work there, or is my test server just magical?

[darklordsatan]

Dude, the sendmail_path is exactly what it is... the path to the sendmail binary, such as /usr/lib/sendmail. Not your mail server IP. Notice you can also pass arguments after the binary's path, something like

sendmail_path=/usr/lib/sendmail -t