Re: php mail() question

Hello, On 12/14/2003 11:51 PM, Jerry wrote:

Php mail() question. I use php mail() frequently, dragging data from a mysql database. I am not sure if this is possible but thought I'd throw it on this board. in php mail() function you can set a return_address etc. Is it possible to change this and run a query? I mean if the email bounces can it somehow talk back to php mail() and do a query rather than send it to the return_address?

If you make the bounce address point to a POP3 mailbox, you have a platform independent solution to handle bounces. Then you just need to use some POP3 component like this to fetch and process the bounced messages once in a while, for instance starting a PHP script from a cron task. I do this all the time to handle bounces from newsletters that I send from my site. http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/