Doc #53420 [Opn->Ver]: mail.log is poorly documented

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53420&edit=1 ID: 53420 Updated by: philip@php.net Reported by: tom at whyscream dot net Summary: mail.log is poorly documented -Status: Open +Status: Verified Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Agreed, and the php.ini-* files should also be updated before this bug is closed. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-27 16:35:19] tom at whyscream dot net Description: ------------ Based upon the documentation in php.ini and documentation [1], I set mail.log in php.ini to the boolean '1', and expected it to send logging output to wherever error_log points to. This caused unexpected errors like "Warning: mail(1): failed to open stream: Permission denied in <script>" It cost me [2], and others too [3], some time to realize that mail.log expects a path to the logfile it needs to write, and no boolean. Please, add some more detail to the documentation of the parameter mail.log [1] http://php.net/manual/en/mail.configuration.php [2] http://news.php.net/php.general/309710 [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1906403/mail-failed-to-open-stream-permission-denied ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53420&edit=1