mail: failed to open stream: Permission denied?

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

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