Symfony app not sending mails (mails not being delivered)

Question

I am running Symfony 1.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.10

I have set up a test action to send an email to my self. The action is executed allright, and there are no errors, however the mail never arrives.

I have tried the same action for this website, on an XP machine, and the mail gets delivered correctly. I have set up my php.ini correctly (i.e. as per the Symfony docs). However, the mail fails to arrive.

Any suggestions on what I may have overlooked/ how I may fix this?

Answer 1

Have you installed a mail server on your server and/or configured it correctly?

Also although unlikely if you're running exactly the same site on your XP machine, are you sure your Symfony app has its delivery strategy set to realtime rather than spool? If so your messages may be being queued. More with Symfony: E-Mails.