Re: why is this not a bug?

I could be way wrong here, but my guess would be that it's returning '1' because that is what your OS is returning... if I remember right the mail() function just opens a pipe to sendmail and returns 1 if everything went well (according to pclose()) or 0 if it didn't. What is the error status when you run /usr/local/turkey from the command line? -philip In article <am.php.general.963454836.14235@illiad.adhesivemedia.com>, Dan Donaldson <omnivore@sympatico.ca> wrote: >If I configure php4 such that I tell it sendmail_path is /usr/local/turkey -t >(not a valid filename) it, still merrily returns '1' when I invoke mail(). How >can it return a true value on a command that has to fail? > >This is pretty frustrating... > > >php4pl2/OSX/Apache 1.3.12 > >dan