Re: [PHP] OS need anything for mail() to work?

Jason Pruim wrote:
> 
> On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, April 25, 2008 3:44 pm, Brian Dunning wrote:
>>> Is there any way for PHP to know that this email is not going through?
>>
>> You could, perhaps, hack your MTA to notify something somewhere that
>> PHP can check...
>>
>> But it's really out of PHP's hands at this point.
>>
>> If you put a letter in a mailbox, and the USPS fails to deliver it, do
>> you really expect to get notified?
> 
> If you're in the US (Hence the USPS) and you put first class postage on 
> it and include your return address then yes since it's built in if the 
> letter is not deliverable as addressed. If it's part of a presorted 
> mailing (not first class) then you have to pay additional fees for it to 
> be returned and specifically request it by adding "Address Service 
> requested" or "Return service requested"
> 
> But none of that has a lick of salt to do with PHP just throwing out my 
> knowledge since that what I do in my day job :)

You're a mail carrier in your day job?  That explains some things :-) 
What are you doing on the computer while you're supposed to be 
delivering mail?

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