exim permission denied

[neubie4life]

I am trying to use php's mail function to send an email. I have a simple script that does the following (the email address i am using is valid, this forum wont let me post at symbols):

 var_dump(mail('example at example.com', 'test', 'this is a test')); 
  

the output is:

bool(false)

and if i check my exim error logs i am getting:

Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1U2rhE-00010B-BI-D: Permission denied

I've tried all sorts of permissions for exim, but none of them seem to work. This is what i have currently:

# ll /usr/sbin/exim
-rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root 1118184 Oct 28 13:32 /usr/sbin/exim
#ls -ld /var/spool/exim/input
drwxr-x---. 2 exim exim 4096 Feb 4 10:07 /var/spool/exim/input

Can anyone offer me any assistance in tracking down where the permission denied error is coming from? Thanks in advance.

[neubie4life]

for anyone that is wondering, it as selinux that was blocking the application. i went into /etc/selinux/config and set SELINUX=disabled and restarted the machine and it worked. (a better solution would be to create a proper policy in selinux, but i dont know how to do that)