How to stop Drush from sending email on site-install when email is not available.

Drupal is doing this. We fixed this with a php.ini setting in our CI setup. Some pseudocode: php -d sendmail_path=/dev/null drush ....

Nice. Great advice for travis ci
https://github.com/myplanetdigital/myplanet/blob/19b8b3c85463d677c7de1c5...

Maybe try php -d sendmail_path=/path/to/executable/that/does/nothing, and then make an executable file that contains only:

#!/bin/bash

exit 0

This is an old question, but for next one looking for how to block php mail function
(perhaps that information would have a better place on the wordpress documentation... it's actually to block wordpress sites turning into spam machines that i use that

no need to create that script

#!/bin/bash
exit 0

is part of unix base and is called /bin/true

in php.ini
sendmail_path=/bin/true

Under unix, process that exits with a non zero value indicate it failed

so to block mails silently (php will believe the mail is sent) you would want /bin/true
if you want php to know that sent has failed then replace with /bin/false

For others who stumble across this, one part that wasn't totally obvious to me: You need to pass in the actual drush.php script instead of the drush binary.

php -d sendmail_path=`which true` /path/to/drush.php site-install ...

In my vagrant box, drush.php was at /usr/share/php/drush/drush.php

Calling drush.php is deprecated. Instead, do this:

/usr/bin/env PHP_OPTIONS='d sendmail_path=`which true`' drush site-install

Thanks Greg! Yes that would be much better. But it doesn't work for me on Drush 6.2, 6.5, or 7-alpha6. With the code you posted, I get "Could not open input file: d".

I think you missed a dash in front of the "d" in
PHP_OPTIONS='d sendmail_path=`which true`'

But after fixing it I still get "Could not open input file: true`"

Any ideas? Thanks.

Sorry for the typos!

Test:

/usr/bin/env PHP_OPTIONS="-d sendmail_path=`which true`" drush ev 'return ini_get("sendmail_path");'

So, for site install, then, use this:

/usr/bin/env PHP_OPTIONS="-d sendmail_path=`which true`" drush site-install ...

The double quotes fixed it. Thanks!

Just used this on a CI setup on codeship.
Works like charm!

Thanks for this.

@guardian87 which version of PHP and Drush do you use? I work for me on 5.6 but not on php 7.

Edit: I had to update to the latest version of Drush using composer instead of the Phar build. Worked like a charm in this case.

FWIW, you can use the following to disable the email notification.

Disable email notification during install and later. If your server has no smtp, this gets rid of an error during install.

drush site-install standard install_configure_form.update_status_module='array(FALSE,FALSE)'

https://drushcommands.com/drush-8x/core/site-install/

In 8.3.x, the SiteConfigureForm form structured changed, so now it's

drush site-install standard install_configure_form.enable_update_status_module=NULL

See https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/pull/2675 and https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/pull/2676

Thank you @jasonawant

Thank you also @jasonawant. Instead of messing around trying to set-up e-mail on Windows IIS, I can just use your:

install_configure_form.update_status_module='array(FALSE,FALSE)'

argument on my 'drush si profile-name' command (for D7).