In the continuing trend of responding to my own messages.... Perhapps
the issue is with how I am interpreting the docs, which state:
mail() returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for
delivery, FALSE otherwise.
I read that as, mail() will return true if PHP is able to connect to
the MTA, pass the message, and the MTA responds that the message was
accepted.
My understanding (or assumption) of how the MTA operates is that it
would not accept a message it did not know how to deliver, ie one with
an invalid destination address.
That being said, there is an article on builder.com with regards to
mail and PHP which states:
The mail() function will return true as long as it connects to the
specified SMTP server. This does not mean that the mail successfully
reached its intended recipient. The mail() function does not wait for
or report success/error codes from the SMTP server
Which contridicts my understanding of what the docs state, but
explains my predicament.
paul
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:05:41 -0500, Paul Reinheimer
<preinheimer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was working with the mail function today to experiment with sending
> a few messages, and threw in the apropriate checks so when mail()
> can't send the message the apropriate errors were raised, however, I
> discovered I couldn't actually get mail() to return 0. Take the
> following call:
> mail("dude", "Daily Feed Update", "body");
>
> When I run that exact call (well, I prepend echo, but you get the
> idea) it returns 1. I can't for the life of me understand why my MTA
> would accept an email with a destination of 'dude'.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> paul
> --
> Paul Reinheimer
>
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Paul Reinheimer
Zend Certified Engineer
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