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Re: getting php mail error info [message #184902 is a reply to message #184898]

Fri, 14 February 2014 15:00

Ben Bacarisse
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Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> writes:

> 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.

Often, (usually? always?) the local sendmail is just a client that
connects to the local MTA. If you use the Mail module to connect, you
can, sometimes, get more error information than you do from mail().
Nothing that happens once the message is queued, of course, but if the
mail logs are inaccessible, it might be better than the success/fail
from PHP's mail() function.

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Ben.

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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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