PEAR Mail problem on Ubuntu

Question

I'm having trouble using the Mail package from PEAR.
I have PHP Version 5.2.8 installed (php-fpm used toghether with nginx)

$ pear version PEAR Version: 1.7.2 PHP Version: 5.2.8-1hardy~ppa1 $ pear list Package Version State Mail 1.1.14 stable ... $ pear config-get php_dir /usr/share/php $ ls /usr/share/php/Mail.php /usr/share/php/Mail.php 

phpinfo() says:

include_path .:/usr/share/php

Everything seems fine, but when I try to

require_once "Mail.php"; 

I get:

Warning: require_once(Mail.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home.. on line 2
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Mail.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /home.. on line 2

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Turns out it was a open_basedir issue, which had the path /usr/share/pear instead of /usr/share/php.
I got it when I tried to require_once "/usr/share/php/Mail.php" and got an open_basedir error.
Changing it in /etc/php5/fpm.conf solved my problem.

Answer 2

Edit your php.ini and look for the paths and directories info. Add /usr/share/php/PEAR to include_path=, mine says:

include_path = ".:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/php/PEAR" 

Answer 3

I had the same/similar problemo.

I resoved by via http://markstechstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/installing-pear-mail-for-php-on-ubuntu.html

You may want to change the order of install however. mail seems to depend on the things listed below. My installation process was not smoothe.

But this resolve my Mail.php not being found.