Re: defending PHP mail function

On Wednesday 31 October 2001 08:40 am, you wrote: > for now it's PHP that's in question AFAIK, this is the first I've ever heard of probelms with mail() not sending to perfectly valid email addresses. Scalability issues and other performance problems, sure, but that's a different animal. Given the number of people that use PHP (and use mail(), especially) I would certainly think this problem would have been reported before if it were a real bug. So, to be blunt, you probably have a problem with your code, your SMTP server, the way you've configured PHP, or something other than mail(). It's easy to blame it on mail() and/or PHP, but I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Find a forgiving customer who reported the problem, ask for their help in troubleshooting it and then send some test emails from a completely different server, preferably on a *nix platform. (not because *nix is better than windows, but because *nix PHP doesn't use smtp for mail delivery) --kurt