I think it's not the responsbilitie of php program to report if the mail was sent successfully. If it failed, the user would receive a mail reporting the error from mail server. On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:58:28 +0000, Rob <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ross Honniball wrote: > > Anyone know how to tell if a mail('email_address@wherever', 'sub', > > 'body') is successful or not? > > > > Thanks .. Ross > > . > > . Ross Honniball. JCU Bookshop Cairns, Qld, Australia. > > . > > The problem with mail is it only passes the message to the mail server, > there is no real way i can follow the message all the way to the users > inbox, > > It gets to the part where the message is accepted into the server queue, > so you would really only get an error if the mail server was down, or > has certain requirements that wernt met... authentication for one. > > Rob Aldred > > Masterserver Limited > www.masterserver.co.uk > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Sincerely, Forest Liu(åäè) -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php