I've been using the built-in (?) 'mail()' function quite successfully so
far (ie, a couple of years) and have not had need to seek an alternate.
That said, I now have to ask the group if there are known cases of
intermittent success with this tool.
I have a pretty good working template for handling emails with a piped
script that sends it results to a std mailbox for review after the
script does it thing. I have several (3-4) scripts linked to mailboxes
that work successfully every time, meaning that my db gets updated and
the emails get sent. Recently I built a new mailbox, made a new script
from my template and began testing. At first (after clearing out all
the syntax errors) it worked successfully but then after a dozen or so
tests I stopped getting the emails. Now it gets weird.
Sometimes the script doesn't seem to run at all since my db doesn't get
updated nor do I receive an email. Other times the db does get updated
but I still get no email. I have debugged and debugged and placed
incremental 'send email' steps throughout my code and still no emails
come back.
But then all of a sudden it works! My hosting co. says there is no
problem with my email accounts and no errors showing, nor do I have any
error logs that show anything. It's been about 4 days now and I am at a
loss to explain it.
Could it be possible that php or mail() is truly buggy and tempermental?
FYI -my host is running mysql 5.5.37(cli) with php 5.4.31 on apache 2.2.7
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