I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 LAMP and trying to do a simple email test with PHP and I'm not getting any emails sent. mail("[email protected]", "eric-linux test", "test") or die("can't send mail"); I get no errors from PHP when running that script. In my php.ini file is: sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail -t -i $ sudo ps aux | grep sendmail eric 2486 0.0 0.4 8368 2344 pts/0 T 14:52 0:00 sendmail -s “Hello world” [email protected] eric 8747 0.0 0.3 5692 1616 pts/2 T 16:18 0:00 sendmail eric 8749 0.0 0.3 5692 1636 pts/2 T 16:18 0:00 sendmail start eric 9190 0.0 0.3 5692 1636 pts/2 T 19:12 0:00 sendmail start eric 9192 0.0 0.3 5692 1616 pts/2 T 19:12 0:00 sendmail eric 9425 0.0 0.3 5692 1620 pts/1 T 19:37 0:00 sendmail eric 9427 0.0 0.3 6584 1636 pts/1 T 19:37 0:00 sendmail restart eric 9429 0.0 0.3 5692 1636 pts/1 T 19:38 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail restart eric 9432 0.0 0.1 3040 804 pts/1 R+ 19:38 0:00 grep --color=auto sendmail When I run $ sendmail start it just hangs there doing nothing. I installed postfix also to see if it would help, but it didn't. I tried to see port 25: eric@eric-linux:~$ telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 eric-linux ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) thanks