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Re: getting php mail error info [message #184914 is a reply to message #184913]

Sun, 16 February 2014 01:06

Ben Bacarisse
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"Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop(at)ninehells(dot)com> writes:

> On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:00:28 +0000, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> 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.
>
> OP said the mail() returned false. That's not usually a problem that's
> going to show up in mail logs, because it's not even gotten as far as
> something that logs anything.

That's a good point. The number of things that can go wrong and still
be logged is very small.

> Why a mail submission would fail varies by
> host OS, too. Pretty much NOTHING short of a systemwide mail failure or
> a blatantly obvious problem with the submission (Nothing in the $to, for
> example) will get a mail() fail on a unix system.

That does get logged by my MTA (masqmail) but I imagine that's just
about the only error where mail() fails and something shows up.

> Windows will fail a
> mail() if the remote Mail Transport Agent doesn't answer or rejects the
> mail, which it *may* do for any reason, including "you've sent too much
> mail lately". In that case, yeah, it might be tricky, but there's still
> going to be no logs to look at.

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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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