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(“[e-mail]”, “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