PHP mail: how to override or bypass mail.log setting

Question

phpinfo() returns this particular setting which is problematic:

mail.log    /var/log/phpmail.log

The problem is I can\'t access the phpmail

Answer 1

I'm a newbie in PHP so I don't know if my solution is really a way to solve this issue or if it works due to a coincidence!

I have the same problem presented here: a call to the PHP function mail() produces a PHP warning. It's all explained in the first message. I also don't possess the permission to edit the mail.log or the directory in which to save it.

Googling, I found a code that call the mail() preceded with a @. I tried to use the code @mail() and it worked!

So this is the working code that I use:

$mail_to = "MyAddress@email.com";
$mail_from = $email; // This e-mail address is taken by an HTML form
$mail_subject = "Test PHP function";
$mail_body = "
This is the body message for the test of a PHP function!
";

// HTML headers
$mail_in_html = "MIME-Version: 1.0
";
$mail_in_html .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
";
$mail_in_html .= "From: <$mail_from>";

// Submission process
if(@mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_body, $mail_in_html))
{
    print "E-mail sent!";
}
else
{
    print "Error: e-mail not sent.";
}