Question

I get this warning sending mails with php Warning: mail(1) [function.mail]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/...

using ssmtp and gmail as smtp
PHP 5.3.1
nothing in the logs (no errors)
the mail gets to destination
the permissions of the files are rwxrxrx

Permission denied to what?

Even calling something as simple as

mail("mail@domain.com", "subject", "body");

I still getting this warning

Answer 1

It turns out to be a file permissions problems after all. But not in the scripts, but in the directory. I ran a chmod -R 777 * and the warning went of. upon further examination I found a file called 1, and this file contained a log of the sent mails. The warning was php telling me that he was unable to open this file

Solution:

 sudo chmod -R 755 *
 sudo chmod  777 1

F#$%^% cryptic php error messages

Answer 2

The problem is that the webserver user is not able to write and/or read the mail log file. For a propper configuration:

1) create the folder and the file for the email logging. For example:

touch /var/log/php5/mail.log

2) set the logging file in php.ini:

mail.log = /var/log/php5/mail.log

3) set the owner and the group for that folder/file in case needed:

check the owner and the group with

ls -la /var/log/php5

in case needed, change the group (change www-data for whatever your web server s group is)

sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/log/php5

in case needed, change the owner (change www-data for whatever your web server s user is)

sudo chown -R www-data /var/log/php5

Answer 3

Does it work if you simplify it?

 $mail_sent = mail( address@domain.com ,  subject ,  message );

If it does, then you know that mail works.

After that, I would remove the $eol stuff and see if that fixes it. If not, then I would remove the header block and keep removing stuff until it starts working.

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