mini_sendmail

accept email on behalf of real sendmail

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  1. Package version
    mini_sendmail-1.3.9
  2. Maintainer
    The OpenBSD ports mailing-list

mini_sendmail reads its standard input up to an end-of-file and sends a
copy of the message found there to all of the addresses listed. The
message is sent by connecting to a local SMTP server. This means
mini_sendmail can be used to send email from inside a chroot(2) area.

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First things first, we need to install the chroot subpackage of
mini_sendmail if you have not done so already. This will put a
statically linked mini_sendmail binary into a location reachable by
Apache when it is under chroot(2), /var/www/bin/mini_sendmail to be
precise.

Next, we need to tell PHP about our fake sendmail binary. The php.ini
examples leave the sendmail_path directive commented out. We need to
change it to point to mini_sendmail:

;sendmail_path =
sendmail_path = "/bin/mini_sendmail -t -i"

PHP executes mini_sendmail by using the popen(3) function.
Unfortunately, this means we are required to copy /bin/sh into the
Apache chroot area:

# cp -p /bin/sh /var/www/bin/sh

If everything has been performed correctly, after a stop and restart of
Apache (if it is running), we should now be able to utilize the PHP
mail() function.