Re: Possible issue in mail() function?

On 26/11/10 15:54, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 25 November 2010 21:30, Tom Hendrikx <tom+php.net@whyscream.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I noticed that the mail() function in php 5.3.3 on gentoo linux triggers >> a warning when used. A simple debug script with the contents: >> >> <?php >> // recipient, subject, body >> mail("some@example.com", "mail() test", "This is a test"); >> ?> >> >> does send mail, but it also raises a warning: >> >> Warning: mail(1): failed to open stream: Permission denied in >> /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test-mail/index.php on line 5 >> >> After some googling [1] and fiddling with permissions, the message >> disappears when php has write permissions to the file >> /var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test-mail/1 , in which it writes the >> following data: >> >> ==8<== >> mail() on [/var/www/www.example.com/htdocs/test-mail/index.php:5]: To: >> some@example.com -- Headers: >> ==8<== >> >> Is this some debug output that someone forgot to remove? >> >> When relevant, the sendmail_path used is "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i", >> which is a regular Postfix sendmail. >> >> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1906403 >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> Tom Hendrikx > > Are you logging your emails via the ini setting mail.log? Maybe this > is the issue. > > Erh, actually, yes I am. Documentation of the setting is rather sparse, but I enabled it some time ago, expecting it to send the data to the logging facility (syslog in my case), after which I forgot to check if that actually happens. The current implementation is rather useless (to me), so I turned it off again. Thanks for the tip, but I think that this is actually a bug? Current way of logging is not very useful, since the file '1' is overwritten (in stead of appended to) with new data at every run of the mail() function. -- Regards, Tom