PHP 5.3

premierhosting · **Joined:** Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:52 pm **Posts:** 257

Howdy,

I know PHP 5.3 isn't live because of reasons, but I just figured I'd share why I think it would be great to get it up to speed.

1. Native ability to log mail() commands. This means you can track exactly what script on what domain is being used to spam from your system.
2. PHP 5.2 is no longer in development.

That's all.

scott · **Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:20 pm

The atomic version has had that feature since 5.2.5 if I recall.

premierhosting · **Joined:** Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:52 pm **Posts:** 257

For serious? Where's the log?

premierhosting · **Joined:** Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:52 pm **Posts:** 257

It would be great to find this. I see email going through the queue with a foreign from address, and unless the ASL qmail is an open relay, I think some PHP script is allowing this.

scott · **Posted:** Fri Aug 06, 2010 9:27 am

Its actually the exact same feature that was merged into 5.3, so the same documentation applies. There are ini settings that let you either add a header into the message, or log the use of the function. One thing to be aware of with plesk is that the open_basedir restriction would effect where that log will go, so generally i add them on a per vhost.conf basis.

premierhosting · **Joined:** Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:52 pm **Posts:** 257

For everyone's enjoyment:

Adding to the mail section in /etc/php.ini

Code:

mail.log = /var/log/mail_php.log

Then...

Code:

touch /var/log/mail_php.log
chown apache.apache /var/log/mail_php.log
service httpd restart

It works great. I'm not seeing any open_basedir restrictions.

Is this an ART or an ASL patch? Either way, it's beautiful, thank you!

scott · **Posted:** Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:09 pm

I dont recall the original author, but that patch ultimately was merged into 5.3 as a main-line feature.

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