SELINUX and sending email using PEAR

Myke-Wazowski · #1 17th December 2010, 02:53 PM

I've been trying to get PHP to send an email using PEAR's mime mail and have been unable to get it working.

Where should I start looking to resolve this problem?

Myke-Wazowski · #2 22nd December 2010, 09:09 PM

Is there a way to have Apache send emails without disabling SELINUX?

domg472 · #3 23rd December 2010, 09:23 AM

In general setting the "httpd_can_sendmail" boolean to on should allow httpd to send mail. If this does not work for you then could you enclose any "AVC denials" that you are seeing?

Myke-Wazowski · #4 29th December 2010, 04:21 PM

I ran "setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail on" but it still was not working.

I then started working backwards to resolve the problem. When I configured the server, I followed that NSA documentation on securing redhat. The setting that I changed was not having sendmail start on boot:

chkconfig sendmail off

As a test, I started sendmail and it worked- emails sent! So I allowed sendmail to start on boot again:

chkconfig sendmail on

Problem resolved.