php mail function does not work

[Thomas Black]

The php mail() function appears to be broken in the core php package. This has
been an intermittent problem with Ubuntu php versions. At present, it is however
broken and hindering website functionality. Output from one of our websites:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in
/var/www/proto.tsf.org.za/formmail.php on line 1919

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in
/var/www/proto.tsf.org.za/formmail.php on line 1919

-Thomas

[Thomas Black (tsblack)]

I've been told this this error is due to a compile time build issue - if no
'sendmail' command is found while building sources, its drops the functionality.
Haven't had time to scrounge the net to verify this yet, but it seems plausible.

[Thom May (thombot)]

OK, the fix seems to be to force sendmail to be on always. This is a really,
really stupid test on unix, but never mind. testing new packages now.

[Thom May (thombot)]

php4 (4:4.3.8-3ubuntu6) warty; urgency=low
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   * Everywhere has sendmail, so let's not even check (Warty #1600)

Ok to upload?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Approved

[Thom May (thombot)]

Uploaded.