[Typo3-dev] mail sending under cgi

[Gary Greer]

BTW - I'm using 3.6.2 - 3.7 is too annoyed at my server to run well. 
Constantly comes up with malformed headers errors.

gg

Gary Greer wrote:
> I'm taking my first steps into looking into the php code of typo3, as my 
> hosting provider has forced me!
> 
> The server is running php as a cgi, and when typo3 tries to send email, 
> it collapses and dies, leaving the dead.letter sitting in my home 
> directory. The dead.letter is the email as it is meant to be sent, so I 
> think that something is going on with the server that is crashing the 
> application.
> 
> I want to change typo3 so that instead of using the sendmail on the 
> server it is on, it uses smtp to relay it through another server, which 
> I control.
> 
> I'm looking inside class.t3lib_htmlmail.php which looks like the right 
> class, but can anyone give me a clue as to where the email is passed to 
> sendmail, so I can catch it and pop it out instead?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> gg