Re: Behavior of mail() function

After testing more carefully I see what is happening.  The call to 
mail() is generating a warning, and our custom error handler is trapping 
that and causing the script to abort.

Thanks for setting me in the right direction.

Thank you,

Lewis Kapell
Computer Operations
Seton Home Study School


On 4/19/2010 3:39 PM, Pierre Joye wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Lewis Kapell<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Running PHP version 5.3.1, I find that if my script tries to send an email
>> message to an address in the local domain, and the address is invalid,
>> mail() throws an error:
>>
>> mail(): SMTP server response: 550 5.1.1<[email protected]>: Recipient
>> address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table
>>
>> Is there a way I can configure PHP so that mail() would return false in this
>> case, rather than throwing an error which causes the script to die?
>
> The script should not die. Mail returns false (no exception are
> raised) on failure and can raise warnings. These warnings can be
> disable using the http://www.php.net/error_reporting ini settings
> (works per directory, per script or globally per php.ini).
>
> Cheers,


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