How can I get the error message for the mail function

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I ve been using the PHP mail   function   If the mail doesn t send for any reason  I d like to echo the error message  How would I do that   Something like    this mail   mail  example example com    My Subject    message    if  this mail  echo  sent    else echo error message    Thanks

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As the others have said  there is no error tracking for send mail it return the boolean result of adding the mail to the outgoing queue  If you want to track true success failure try using SMTP with a mail library like Swift Mailer  Zend Mail  or phpmailer

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If you are on Windows using SMTP  you can use error get last   when mail   returns false  Keep in mind this does not work with PHP s native mail   function   success   mail  example example com    My Subject    message   if    success         errorMessage   error get last    message       With print r error get last     you get something like this    type    gt  2  message    gt  mail    Failed to connect to mailserver at  quot x x x x quot  port 25  verify your  quot SMTP quot  and  quot smtp port quot  setting in php ini or use ini set    file    gt  C  www X X php  line    gt  2

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You can use the PEAR mailer  which has the same interface  but returns a PEAR Error when there is problems

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Try this  If I got any error on any file then I got error mail on my email id  Create two files index php and checkErrorEmail php and uploaded them to your server  Then load index php with your browser   Index php   lt  php     include  checkErrorEmail php        include  dereporting php         temp      echo  hi    temp    gt    checkErrorEmail php   lt  php      Destinations   define  ADMIN EMAIL    pradeep callus7 hotmail com        define  LOG FILE     my home errors log          Destination types   define  DEST EMAIL    1        define  DEST LOGFILE    3          Examples          Send an e-mail to the administrator     error log  Fix me    DEST EMAIL  ADMIN EMAIL         Write the error to our log file     error log  Error   DEST LOGFILE  LOG FILE                my error handler  errno   errstr   errfile   errline              Author s   thanosb  ddonahue       Date  May 11  2008              custom error handler             Parameters          errno    Error level         errstr   Error message         errfile  File in which the error was raised         errline  Line at which the error occurred           function my error handler  errno   errstr   errfile   errline          echo   lt br gt  lt br gt  lt br gt  lt br gt errno    errno    lt br gt errstr    errstr    lt br gt errfile    errfile    lt br gt errline    errline        if  errno                        error log  Error   errstr  n error on line  errline in file  errfile  n   DEST EMAIL  ADMIN EMAIL                 switch   errno          case E USER ERROR             Send an e-mail to the administrator         error log  Error   errstr  n Fatal error on line  errline in file  errfile  n   DEST EMAIL  ADMIN EMAIL               Write the error to our log file           error log  Error   errstr  n Fatal error on line  errline in file  errfile  n   DEST LOGFILE  LOG FILE           break         case E USER WARNING             Write the error to our log file           error log  Warning   errstr  n in  errfile on line  errline  n   DEST LOGFILE  LOG FILE           break         case E USER NOTICE             Write the error to our log file           error log  Notice   errstr  n in  errfile on line  errline  n   DEST LOGFILE  LOG FILE           break         default             Write the error to our log file           error log  Unknown error    errno    errstr  n in  errfile on line  errline  n   DEST LOGFILE  LOG FILE           break                  Don t execute PHP s internal error handler     return TRUE             Use set error handler   to tell PHP to use our method    old error handler   set error handler  my error handler        gt

User · Answer

There is no error message associated with the mail   function   There is only a true or false returned on whether the email was accepted for delivery   Not whether it ultimately gets delivered  but basically whether the domain exists and the address is a validly formatted email address

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e error get last    if  e  message                 An error function     error get last    - return the last error that occurred

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sending mail in php is not a one-step process  mail   returns true false  but even if it returns true  it doesn t mean the message is going to be sent  all mail   does is add the message to the queue using sendmail or whatever you set in php ini   there is no reliable way to check if the message has been sent in php  you will have to look through the mail server logs

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In my case  I couldn t get the error message in my PHP script no matter what I do  error get last    or ini set  display errors  1    don t show the error message  according to this post     The return value from  mail refers only to whether or not your   server s mailing system accepted the message for delivery  and does   not and can not in any way know whether or not you are providing valid   arguments  For example  the return value would be false if sendmail   failed to load  e g  if it wasn t installed properly   but would   return true if sendmail loaded properly but the recipient address   doesn t exist    I confirm this because after some failed attempts to use mail   in my PHP scripts  it turns that sendmail was not installed on my machine  however the php ini variable sendmail path was  usr sbin sendmail -t -i   1- I installed sendmail from my package manager shell gt  dnf install sendmail  2- I started it shell gt  service sendmail start  3- Now if any PHP mail   function fails I find the errors of the sendmail program       logged under  var mail  directory  1 file per user  For example this snippet is taken from my   var mail root file  The original message was received at Sun  29 Jul 2018 22 37 51  0200 from localhost  127 0 0 1     ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----  lt no-one errorerrorerrorerror51248562221e542 com gt       reason  550 Host unknown    My system is linux Fedora 28 with apache2 4 and PHP 7 2

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