Bash script to write/sink output sent to sendmail to a log file. Useful for debugging with PHP and other runtimes that talk to sendmail.

sendmailsink.sh

#!/bin/bash -e
# For PHP5 and /etc/php5/php.ini you would setup like so:
# sendmail_path = "/path/to/sendmailsink.sh"

LOG_FILE="/var/log/sendmailsink"


echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d @ %H:%M:%S") || $0 $*" >>$LOG_FILE
echo >>$LOG_FILE

while read buffer
do
	echo "$buffer" >>$LOG_FILE
done

echo "=================================" >>$LOG_FILE