PHP 4.0 Bug #5630: mail() function erroneously returns true
| From: | vvortex1 at home dot com | Date: | Mon, 17 Jul 2000 02:48:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | PHP 4.0 Bug #5630: mail() function erroneously returns true | ||
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From: vvortex1@home.com
Operating system: UNIX (FreeBSD)
PHP version: 4.0.1pl2
PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function
Bug description: mail() function erroneously returns true
This bug was posted in the manual annotations more than a year ago, but it still isn't fixed.
When the mail server reports an error, such as 550, the mail() function returns true. This is
particularly problematic because it leaves no warning whatsoever that the message wasn't sent.
I'm on a shared host, so I don't have access to php.ini, but I can provide the results of
phpinfo() if necessary. I was also able to reproduce the problem on my own system (Windows
Me/Apache1.3.12/PHP4.0.1) and on a WindowsNT 4 SP6 partition with the same configuration.