Ubuntu 10.04 + PHP 5.3 + XMail

Posted June 28, 2010

If you install XMail on your Ubuntu 10.04 server, you will find that PHP won't be able to send mail out. You will repeatedly an error similar to this:

/var/lib/xmail/spool/temp/1277773767000.23491.p2198888.pubip.serverbeach.com: Permission denied

Don't bother with file permissions - they don't work. The way to get this working is to add "www-data" to the "mail" group thus:

usermod -a -G mail www-data
Posted in Programming
Tagged as ubuntu, php, xmail, 10.04, and 5.3

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