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Re: getting php mail error info [message #184898 is a reply to message #184887]

Fri, 14 February 2014 11:44

Jerry Stuckle
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On 2/13/2014 8:42 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Michael Vilain <vilain(at)NOspamcop(dot)net> writes:
>
>> In article <XnsA2D2F27E54CEFR2D2(at)127(dot)0(dot)0(dot)1>,
>> GS <nomail(at)nospam(dot)org(dot)invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a php mail script which was working ok but the mail() call
>>> returned a bunch of errors today. The trouble is that it only returns true
>>> or false, I was wondering if there is any way to get more feedback from
>>> sendmail about what what went wrong, since I don't know whether I fed it
>>> bad data or whether sendmail playing up. I can't find any alternative mail
>>> calls I could use in the PHP manual.
>>>
>>> This is on a shared virtual hosting system so I don't have access to the
>>> linux or sendmail configuration and I can't find any log files in my
>>> userspace that pertain to the sendmail calls. The system is running PHP
>>> 5.3.27, I think the OS is Linux 2.6.32.
>>
>> mail() is all you're gonna get in a shared hosting facility.
>
> I've used one shared hosting provided that offered the PEAR Mail module
> which could be used to connect to whatever SMTP server you liked (one of
> which was their own). It was a while ago, but I think you get better
> error messages from it, though nothing is going to beat getting the
> server's logs for diagnosing the problem.
>
> <snip>
>

How does that solve his problem? He doesn't want to connect to a
different email server - he wants to get this one working.

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		getting php mail error info By: GS on Wed, 12 February 2014 23:50
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 13 February 2014 03:30
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Michael Vilain on Thu, 13 February 2014 07:16
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Ben Bacarisse on Thu, 13 February 2014 13:42
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Allodoxaphobia on Fri, 14 February 2014 04:21
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 14 February 2014 11:44
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Ben Bacarisse on Fri, 14 February 2014 15:00
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Peter H. Coffin on Sat, 15 February 2014 18:54
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Ben Bacarisse on Sun, 16 February 2014 01:06
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 16 February 2014 01:24
		Re: getting php mail error info By: Derek Turner on Thu, 13 February 2014 11:25

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