php mail() and whm nobody tewak settings

[Radio_Head]

Hello,

when I started to use the "Prevent the user 'nobody' from sending out mail to remote addresses" option on whm tweak setting a lot of clients are experiencing problems with
the php mail() function .

What I have to do to send an email using
the php mail() function when the ""Prevent the user 'nobody' "
is enabled ?

Thank you !!

[jamesbond]

This is just not working correctly at the moment, there are a couple of threads on the same topic.

Just uncheck 'prevent nobody...' for now until CPanel has fixed this issue.

[cikul]

i have uncheck but, mail() still not working.... anyone can help me??

[jamesbond]

Originally posted by cikul
i have uncheck but, mail() still not working.... anyone can help me??

What errors do you get after unchecking it?

I had problems after unchecking it as well, mail was still not being delivered but i didn't get any bounced emails with the unroutable domain error.

What I did is run /scripts/newexim and then after checking/unchecking a couple of more times things started working all of a sudden. (this was 10-15 minutes later)
I really have no idea what caused things to suddenly work again, maybe it will do the same for you.

[joana]

Originally posted by cikul
i have uncheck but, mail() still not working.... anyone can help me??

restart Exim

[Radio_Head]

uhm ...

I tried to use mail() with a complete header , indicating
"from" , "return to" and other parameters ..

but ....nothing to do .. with "Prevent nobody" the email goes losed (don't reach destination..)

I hope Brad will fixed this ... at this time "prevent nobody" is too much restrictive !

Specifiing an header on mail() it should permit to send the message .

[silversurfer]

This did the trick for me. The weird thing is that the problem only started happening yesterday although I have that option ticked for a long time.

When will Cpanel stop breaking our things and make it less buggy

[cpanelnick]

Originally posted by silversurfer
This did the trick for me. The weird thing is that the problem only started happening yesterday although I have that option ticked for a long time.

When will Cpanel stop breaking our things and make it less buggy

This isn't a bug, its doing exactly what the option says. php/httpd run as 'nobody' so its going to block to mail to remote domains from php scripts if you turn this on (unless you have phpsuexec installed)

[PPNSteve]

why does it not send when this option is unchecked?
i use simple mailform.pl cgi script to parse forms and none of the mails are being sent.. any ideas?

[joana]

Originally posted by bdraco
This isn't a bug, its doing exactly what the option says. php/httpd run as 'nobody' so its going to block to mail to remote domains from php scripts if you turn this on (unless you have phpsuexec installed)

phpsuexec? we have suexec but not phpsuexec.. where can we get this to install?

[Dathorn_ADT]

Is there going to be a fix for this issue any time soon? /scripts/newexim will fix it but after about 4 hours it wouldn't work again and I had to go and do it again. Gets kind of ridiculous.

[PPNSteve]

I just ran an update to: WHM 6.2.0 Cpanel 6.2.0-S49 (was at WHM 6.0.0 Cpanel 6.0.0-S109) and all seems to be working again.. (only time will tell for sure) might want to update and see what happens..

[WeMasterz5]

Just uncheck 'prevent nobody...' for now until CPanel has fixed this issue.

where in tweak settings is this???

I just ran an update to: WHM 6.2.0 Cpanel 6.2.0-S49 (was at WHM 6.0.0 Cpanel 6.0.0-S109) and all seems to be working again

what edge are you using to get this? I got WHM 6.2.0 Cpanel 6.2.0-E33

[PPNSteve]

doesn't say it's an edge release.. was latest in the stable tree..

[WeMasterz5]

oh I see ...ok....so is there a working stable now? we tried last week and it would not upgrade and when we did upgrade with the edge and switched back to stable we lost the edge upgrade