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Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail, intended as an alternative to the widely used Sendmail MTA.
Postfix is released under the IBM Public License 1.0 which is a free software licence.
Originally written in 1997 by Wietse Venema at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and first released in December 1998, Postfix continues as of 2014 to be actively developed by its creator and other contributors. The software is also known by its former names VMailer and IBM Secure Mailer.
Postfix Official Website www.postfix.org
Modify the main PHP configuration file php.ini file, open the PHP mail()
function to send mail function in Unix-like systems
$ sudo vim /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini
Modify
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). ; http://php.net/sendmail-path ;sendmail_path =
... to
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). ; http://php.net/sendmail-path sendmail_path = "env -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"
Then restart the Apache server or Nginx server.
Open Mail Service
Send E-mail mainly by the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) mail transfer agent to achieve, there are common MTA Postfix, Sendmail, etc.
OS X system has been pre-installed Postfix service, we do not need to install once, just to start it.
$ sudo postfix start postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Check Postfix Running Status ( whether the process created )
$ ps -ef | grep postfix 0 3131 1 0 1:15PM ?? 0:00.02 /usr/libexec/postfix/master 501 3268 1828 0 1:24PM ttys000 0:00.00 grep postfix
Check Postfix Install Path
$ which postfix /usr/sbin/postfix
Test Send Mail
$ date | mail -s testing name[at]example.com
View Send Queue
$ mailq Mail queue is empty
Open your inbox to check if there testing the title of the message.
PHP Mail() Function Test Mail
<?php $send = mail('name[at]example.com', 'My Subject', 'The test mail'); if ($send) { echo 'true'; } else { echo 'false'; }