problem with mail function

romic

Hi,

I have a script that sends the content of a form to an email from the database. There's a posibility that the email is not valid/correct. How can I make the script to send a "delivery failure" email?

I'm trying to do this the next way:

$header = "Return-Path: $mail";
$header .= "Reply-to: $mail\r\n";
$header .= "From: $name <$mail>\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1;\r\n\r\n";

mail ($email,$subj,$mail_registr,$header);

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Wynder

Hard to have a reliable method -- the mail() function returns a boolean.

"Returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise."

If the domain exists but the username is wrong, it'll get sent and the sending email address will receive a bounce from the receiving server -- there's not too much you can do there.. If the domain name can't be resolved, you should receive a false from the mail() function.

romic

Is there any other posibility to do this? Other function?

Wynder

To check a bounced mail? No, you need to start dealing with your mail handler -- it's quite involved and very complicated. I'm not sure about Windows; with linux you can create a procmail script, though.