Email piping to a php script fopen disabled

[broncha]

Hi,

I was trying to pipe emails to a php script. The script is working fine as I can simulate the piping from the shell:

here is read.sh

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php
/* Read the message from STDIN */
$fd = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
$email = ""; // This will be the variable holding the data.
while (!feof($fd)) {
$email .= fread($fd, 1024);
}
fclose($fd);
/* Saves the data into a file */
$fdw = fopen("mail.txt", "w+");
fwrite($fdw, $email);
fclose($fdw);
/* Script End */

root@host [public_html/broncha]# ./read.sh << EOM
> this is a test mail
> EOM

When i execute the script like this It works perfectly fine.But when I send email , it bounces back with following error:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

 pipe to |/path/to/read.php
   generated by someuser@domain.com
   local delivery failed

What can be the issue? Please help

Edit:
Sorry the fopen in the thread title has got nothing to do with this. I was getting that error earlier which I have got fixed.

[cpanel_lee]

Is the script executable on your filesystem?

[cPanelDavidN]

hmm, maybe this is too simply but the error message is "path/to/read.php" not read.sh. I understand you probably changed the path for posting, but thought I'd mention it...

like Lee said, I'l also check the permissions/owner of the script so that it can be used by the invoking script.

Regards,
-Dave

[broncha]

hmm, maybe this is too simply but the error message is "path/to/read.php" not read.sh. I understand you probably changed the path for posting, but thought I'd mention it...

like Lee said, I'l also check the permissions/owner of the script so that it can be used by the invoking script.

Regards,
-Dave

oops some silly mistakes there.
The server I was trying the script on had some problems problems so php was throwing out errors so the mail were being rejected.

I moved the script to another server.Now I get the fopen problem back.
the bounced message says:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

 pipe to |/path /to/read.sh
   generated by 152207@domain.com

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

------ pipe to |/path /to/read.sh
      generated by 152207@domain.com ------

PHP Warning:  fopen(mail.txt) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /path /to/read.sh on line 11
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  fopen(mail.txt) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in <b>/path /to/read.sh</b> on line <b>11</b><br />
PHP Warning:  fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /path /to/read.sh on line 12
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in <b>/path /to/read.sh</b> on line <b>12</b><br />
PHP Warning:  fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /path /to/read.sh on line 13
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in <b>/path /to/read.sh</b> on line <b>13</b><br />

So, I am pretty much sure this is about PHP.
but running the script from shell works fine.
fopen() is disabled when an email is piped into it.

Any suggestions, how I configure PHP for this?

Thanks.

[broncha]

Hi,

Got it resolved.
The problem was with the creation of the mail.txt
It didn't exist and the creation of the file was forbidden.
I created a mail.txt file and chmod it to 777.

The script is working now.

Thanks .

[goldy_rocky]

Thanks a ton for this.

Worked like charm