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I've been trying to configure the mail() function for 3 days by now, and I'm running out of ideas.
I've installed and configured postfix as a satellite, following this guide: How to have my PHP Send mail? but it seems I lack the file /etc/postfix/sender_canonical (and of course I have no idea of what to put inside it). By now this is the only clue I have about the problem...
I'm trying to run it on Ubuntu 12.04 laptop, built with x32 architecture.


EDIT: After a few iterations of apt-get purge and apt-get install, mail() started to return true, the error log has stopped growing so it seems all ok, but no mail managed to reach my inbox, not even as spam.

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This might be overkill for what you want, but following the directions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix

and literally just copy pasting all commands and following the directions carefully should get you there.

I run 12.04 on three different systems and have set all of them up this way - i've had zero problems with mail().

I'm still a bit of a newbie at this, so like i said - it might be overkill for what you need. Hope it helps though.

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Check php config file and try to use simple sendmail instead of postfix.

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  • I tried it in attempts 2-5, but thank you
    – frollo
    Mar 25, 2013 at 14:07

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