PHP mail() w/ postfix problem in FC3 FIXED

[Nathaniel Price]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mo, den 10.01.2005 schrieb Nathaniel Price um 17:21:
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>>I recently did a clean install of FC3 on a server that was running RH8. 
>>There were a number of PHP scripts that I had configured to send out 
>>email for notices or passwords or the like. However, now that I've 
>>upgraded I can't send mail through the mail() command in PHP.
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>>My problem is exactly like what I found here, but unfortunately that 
>>question was left unanswerd: 
>>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg06708.html
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>>[snip]
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>The "problem" is SELinux. You will find audit / avc messages in the
>/var/log/messages syslog log file when you get above mentioned
>permission denied message in the Apache log. This is because Apache is
>not allowed to use the Postfix sendmail binary.
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>http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/
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>Else, if above does not help to modify the default policy, I would think
>the question may be best asked on the
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>Fedora SELinux support list for users & developers.
><fedora-selinux-list at redhat.com>
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>mailing list - if this posting does not come to the real SELinux
>professionals' attention.
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>Alexander
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THANK YOU so much! Disabling SELinux protection for apache fixed the 
problem. I'll go through the documentation you mentioned to see what I 
can do to use SELinux with apache while still using postfix's sendmail 
interface for mail.

Nathaniel