#21165 [NEW]: mail() is not descriptive enough

From: tit.petric@telemach.net Operating system: all PHP version: 4.3.0RC4 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: mail() is not descriptive enough mail is probably the most common used function with the worst set of error reporting available to it mail() returns true on success and false on error, but this "false" is all you can get with php, when as you have to examine the mailer logs to see if the message acctually failed (i for example get false on the mail() function, but the email is queued and sent with sendmail) there should be atleast somekind of trigger_error() sequence which would spew out a few E_NOTICE or E_WARNING triggers depending on the progress of mail() - for example.. if the sendmail_path directive isn't configured properly, some incorrect data (any of the parameters beeing null, empty or not set), or you cant connect to the mail server (windows - only guessing that it doesnt report that), or whatever kind of message the mailer spews out resulting in true/false any kind of verbosity, even if only trough E_NOTICE or E_WARNING would really be appreciated, a simple true or false is just not enough when tracking down why mail() returns false. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21165&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21165&r=isapi