Re: best way to log bad email address'

on 25/07/02 5:37 PM, Miguel Cruz (mnc@stoic.net) wrote: > In almost every case, mail() will return true, regardless of how bogus the > destination email address is. > > mail() just dumps it into the mail queue. There's a lot that goes on > between there and delivery, and mail() doesn't wait around. That's what I figured/feared :) > You'll need to catch bounces as they come in. To make life easier, assign > your own unique Message-IDs and remember them, so you can easily > invalidate addresses. Erm, I'm on a shared server, so I don't *think* it's that easy unfortunately -- I can't get a message to bounce to the From: or Reply-To: headers I set. My guess is it goes to an address set in php.ini, or somewhere else, and is global to the entire server (doesn't help me). Unless I can set it was .htaccess or ini_set(). TIA Justin French