Re: [PHP] Detecting email bounces sent by the mail function?

2002-11-29 Thread Chris Hewitt
scott wrote: What would php run as on a cobalt raq4 so I don't get the x header warning Best regards As php is a web application, it is the webserver sending emails. Apache runs as user httpd on the raq on which I have an account. Get it to send you an email so that you can check. HTH Chris

Re: [PHP] Detecting email bounces sent by the mail function?

2002-11-29 Thread John Nichel
To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to do this with the mail function. However, I check for bounces using Perl and a cron. I don't see why you couldn't use php to do the same thing though. Ade Smith wrote: Hello Is it possible to detect with PHP whether an email sent using the PHP

[PHP] Detecting email bounces sent by the mail function?

2002-11-28 Thread Ade Smith
Hello Is it possible to detect with PHP whether an email sent using the PHP 'mail' function has bounced back or has not been delivered? I currently all ready check the email address using the 'ereg' function before the mail function is called, but this only checks the format is valid beforehand.

Re: [PHP] Detecting email bounces sent by the mail function?

2002-11-28 Thread DL Neil
Hello Ade, Is it possible to detect with PHP whether an email sent using the PHP 'mail' function has bounced back or has not been delivered? I currently all ready check the email address using the 'ereg' function before the mail function is called, but this only checks the format is valid

Re: [PHP] Detecting email bounces sent by the mail function?

2002-11-28 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Added to this: you won't receive the immediately, so you are not able to tell the user that sending the mail has failed. DL Neil wrote: Hello Ade, Is it possible to detect with PHP whether an email sent using the PHP 'mail' function has bounced back or has not been delivered? I currently

Re: [PHP] Detecting email bounces sent by the mail function?

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:54:46 -, you wrote: Hello Is it possible to detect with PHP whether an email sent using the PHP 'mail' function has bounced back or has not been delivered? Hi, If you're using PHP on a unix/linux with sendmail you can set the envelope sender via the 5th parameter to

RE: [PHP] Detecting email bounces sent by the mail function?

2002-11-28 Thread scott
What would php run as on a cobalt raq4 so I don't get the x header warning Best regards -Original Message- From: Michael Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 November 2002 19:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ade Smith Subject: Re: [PHP] Detecting email bounces sent by the mail function