[RESOLVED] tricking php on mail()

jeditdog

I have a test apache / php setup on my windows laptop. These are really the only 2 servers running on the machine and this is the way I would like it to keep it.

I have written a PHP script that uses the mail() function. It throws a lot of warnings when I run tests in the test environment.

I don't really want to disable warning display so I was wondering if there is a way to make PHP think the mail message has be handed off to the mail server-- and avoid these annoying warnings.

Thanks!

Houdini

Why don't you just set your php.ini to
SMTP = B[/B]
sendmail_from = B[/B]
and actually be online while testing.

jeditdog

but wouldn't this cause emails to be actually sent?

Houdini

Yes it would, so what is it you just dont want to see the warning, well then comment out the mail() line.

MarkR

What you really need to do is run a local MTA which can deliver to a local domain. This is the only way that you'll be able to adequately test the mail() functionality while on the road and not connected to the internet.

To do this you'll need to at least install a MTA additionally.

Personally I always write a wrapper for mail() which does some more checks:
- If in dev mode, it sends all emails to the same address (configurable)
- Performs various checks against newline-injection in headers
- Applies various misc headers I want to add (e.g. content-type)

You could also make this custom mail function wrapper check a constant to disable mails altogether, although there will be a lot of cases where you really want mails to arrive so you can test it.

Mark