Re: getting php mail error info

Path	csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From	"Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: getting php mail error info
Date	Sat, 15 Feb 2014 12:54:41 -0600
Lines	23
Message-ID	<slrnlfvdvh.v5n.hellsop@nibelheim.ninehells.com> (permalink)
References	<XnsA2D2F27E54CEFR2D2@127.0.0.1> <vilain-FCF04A.23165612022014@news.individual.net> <0.8076f4bbbe009409107c.20140213134214GMT.87iosjdt8p.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <ldkvj5$hs$1@dont-email.me> <0.8da7462b1e3ff8032143.20140214150028GMT.87wqgxbuyb.fsf@bsb.me.uk>
Mime-Version	1.0
Content-Type	text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding	7bit
X-Trace	individual.net qWLUORdLIGF5N5C8uC8cQA4X75jZF7FI60Bicaf1qEqgiM9Dzc
X-Orig-Path	nibelheim.ninehells.com!_news
Cancel-Lock	sha1:VzO6FJ0MUxQZEnun8322N8bNN9E=
User-Agent	slrn/0.9.9p1 (OpenBSD)
Xref	csiph.com comp.lang.php:12834

Show key headers only | View raw

On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:00:28 +0000, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Often, (usually? always?) the local sendmail is just a client that
> connects to the local MTA.  If you use the Mail module to connect, you
> can, sometimes, get more error information than you do from mail().
> Nothing that happens once the message is queued, of course, but if the
> mail logs are inaccessible, it might be better than the success/fail
> from PHP's mail() function.

OP said the mail() returned false. That's not usually a problem that's
going to show up in mail logs, because it's not even gotten as far as
something that logs anything. Why a mail submission would fail varies by
host OS, too. Pretty much NOTHING short of a systemwide mail failure or
a blatantly obvious problem with the submission (Nothing in the $to, for
example) will get a mail() fail on a unix system. Windows will fail a
mail() if the remote Mail Transport Agent doesn't answer or rejects the
mail, which it *may* do for any reason, including "you've sent too much
mail lately". In that case, yeah, it might be tricky, but there's still
going to be no logs to look at.

-- 
Cunningham's First Law:
Any sufficiently complex deterministic system will exhibit
non-deterministic behaviour.

Thread

getting php mail error info GS <nomail@nospam.org.invalid> - 2014-02-12 23:50 +0000
  Re: getting php mail error info Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-12 22:30 -0500
  Re: getting php mail error info Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-02-12 23:16 -0800
    Re: getting php mail error info Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-02-13 13:42 +0000
      Re: getting php mail error info Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2014-02-14 04:21 +0000
      Re: getting php mail error info Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-14 06:44 -0500
        Re: getting php mail error info Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-02-14 15:00 +0000
          Re: getting php mail error info "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2014-02-15 12:54 -0600
            Re: getting php mail error info Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-02-16 01:06 +0000
            Re: getting php mail error info Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-15 20:24 -0500
  Re: getting php mail error info Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> - 2014-02-13 11:25 +0000

csiph-web