Re: mail sent but not received?!
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Sat, 26 Jun 2004 03:45:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: mail sent but not received?! | ||
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* Thus wrote Bing Du:
>
> $rev = mail($to,$sbj,$msg);
>
> echo "mail from my.edu result is $rev";
> ?>
> --------------
>
> Since the result of the mail() returned is 1, the message should have been
> delivered fine. but I did not get anything. Where can I look for more
Negative! $rev will simply let you know that your MTA (mail
transfer agent) accepted your message. The MTA will attempt to deliver
the message at its own will.
> clues of what the problem might be, like possible log, or turn on some
> debug level in php? I've also tried mail($to,$sbj,$msg, "-f me@my.edu"),
> no workie either.
if the mail was unsucessfully delivered, and me@my.edu is a valid
email then the email will get returned to me@my.edu.
it gets more complicated than that but thats the jest of it.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
If you have access to you're maillog's then view those.
Curt
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