Hello, on 02/23/2006 10:52 PM Mattias Thorslund said the following: >>> This might be "too simple" or not... >>> >>> I'm trying to send emails from my PHP page, and while both mail() and PEAR Mail >>> work, I'm having a hard time finding out whether a message was actually sent or >>> not. >>> >>> With both mail() and PEAR Mail, an email to an invalid domain (syntactically >>> valid) name returned "success"... Running mailq at the command prompt gives me: >>> >>> "(Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=activeagenda.org >>> type=MX: Host not found, try again)" >>> >>> Basically, I'd like my PHP script to know of issues like these. >>> >> What you want is impossible most of the time. The problem is that >> usually applications are MUA (Mail User Agents) and so do not deliver >> messages. They rather queue them in the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) queue. >> So you only know whether the message was successfully deliver or not if >> you request some kind of delivery notification. >> >> Alternatively, if you want to know whether an address is valid, you may >> want to try this e-mail validation class. >> >> http://www.phpclasses.org/emailvalidation >> >> You may also want to try this other class that can act partially as an >> MTA. It is a normal mail composing and sending class with a SMTP >> delivery sub-class that has a direct delivery mode. This means that it >> will attempt to send the message directly to the destination SMTP server >> rather than queueing in the local MTA queue. >> >> It comes with a wrapper function named urgent_mail(). It is compatible >> with the mail function, except that it uses the class direct delivery >> mode to attempt to deliver the message right away. If it fails due to >> some temporary error, it falls back to the mail() function. >> >> http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage >> > > First, thanks for quick replies, everyone! > > Manuel: I'll look into the mimemessage class. > > Yes I'm aware of the mail queue. I guess what I'm after is way to get a > more detailed status message. I notice that in the mail queue, each > message is given a unique ID, which I suspect could be used for my > purpose, i.e. has the message been processed yet, is there a temporary > or permanent delivery problem, etc. I don't see how the PHP function > would be able to get the message ID of the message it just handed over > to the MTA. It is the Message-ID: header. Just set it to your unique identifier for tracking purposes. > I guess one way would be to implement a queue of my own, and use the > "direct SMTP" approach to deliver messages. It may be a way to go, but keep in mind that the temporary failure rates are increasing due to the number of SMTP servers that use grey listing. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.metastorage.net/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
