On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:48 PM, tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Rick Dwyer <rpdwyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I have some Pear Mail code composing an email and sending it to an external smtp server for sending.
>>
>> The issue is determining whether that external server actually accepted the mail or not. In the IF(PEAR… code below, it will return success even if I leave the $to value empty. However, if I remove the smtp username or password, it will return an error indicating it could not reach the remote server. So the Pear::IsError function seems to only reflect if the intended server was accessible… and not if the intended server accepted the outgoing email for delivery.
>>
>> Anyone have experience with the scenario below… specifically with determining if the smtp server accepted the mail for delivery?
>>
>> Thanks for any info.
>>
>> --Rick
>>
>> require_once "Mail.php";
>>
>> $from = "from@xxxxxxxxxxx";
>> $to = "to@xxxxxxxxxxx";
>> $subject = "Hello!";
>> $body = "Hello!";
>>
>> $host = "mail.host.net";
>> $username = "myuser";
>> $password = "mypass";
>>
>> $headers = array ('From' => $from,'To' => $to,'Subject' => $subject);
>> $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',array ('host' => $host,'auth' => true,'username' => $username,'password' => $password));
>
> I'd suggest putting a check here to see if $smtp is a PEAR::Error
> object as well:
>
> if (PEAR::isError($smtp)) {
> echo ("<p>" . $smtp->getMessage() . "</p>");
> // die or return or skip the next part, whatever
> } else {
Same result… which is to say no error returned even for messages sent with no email in the to address field.
--Rick
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