How can I catch an error caused by mail

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Does anyone know how can I catch a mail error  error is displayed while sending email and the error is caused by the mailserver down  in php   Error that was caused by emailserver down is below       lt  --2010-02-24T14 26 43 11 00 NOTICE  5   Unexpected Error  mail     lt a href  function mail  gt function mail lt  a gt    Failed to connect to mailserver at  quot ip  quot  port portip  verify your  quot SMTP quot  and  quot smtp port quot  setting in php ini or use ini set      2     2010-02-24 14 26 43   Username  admin   Error in line 439 of file D  test php   Script   customer php     Global Error Handler    -- gt

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According to http   php net manual en function error-get-last php  use   print r error get last       Which will return an array of the last error generated  You can access the  message  element to display the error

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This is about the best you can do  if   mail               Reschedule for later try or panic appropriately     http   php net manual en function mail php  mail   returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery  FALSE otherwise  It is important to note that just because the mail was accepted for delivery  it does NOT mean the mail will actually reach the intended destination   If you need to suppress warnings  you can use  if    mail        Be careful though about using the   operator without appropriate checks as to whether something succeed or not   If mail   errors are not suppressible  weird  but can t test it right now   you could  a  turn off errors temporarily   errLevel   error reporting E ALL   E NOTICE       suppress NOTICEs mail       error reporting  errLevel       restore old error levels  b  use a different mailer  as suggested by fire and Mike  If mail   turns out to be too flaky and inflexible  I d look into b   Turning off errors is making debugging harder and is generally ungood

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You could use the PEAR Mail classes and methods  which allows you to check for errors via   if  PEAR  isError  mail         echo   lt p gt      mail- gt getMessage       lt  p gt       else       echo   lt p gt Message successfully sent  lt  p gt         You can find an example here

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also using http   php net error get last will not help you out  because mail   does not emmit its errors into this function   Only way seems to be using a proper mailer  like already suggested above

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PHPMailer handles errors nicely  also a good script to use for sending mail via SMTP     if   mail- gt Send        echo  Mailer Error       mail- gt ErrorInfo    else     echo  Message sent

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