[SOLVED] mail function fails after invalid address

[levi2613]

I have a function that sends a short email to people who have signed up for the service.  Unfortunately, some people do not sign up with valid email addresses, and these seem to cause my loop to fail without mailing those who have valid addresses.  Any ideas?

 

foreach($address_arr as $address) {
         $success = mail($address,'Open Shift',$body,'From: DCEMS');
         if ($success)
            $success_arr[] = "Successful notification: " . $address;
         else
            $_ERROR[] = "Failed notification: " . $address;
      }

[DeanWhitehouse]

It shouldn't do that, but just in case it is caused by what i think try putting an @ symbol in front of the mail function

[corbin]

Are you sure the script isn't just timing out?  PHP's mail() function is notoriously slow since it opens a new connection each time.

 

 

 

Blade, how would @ help?  mail() doesn't even throw a fatal error.

[DeanWhitehouse]

Yeah i thought it didn't, that's why his question didn't make sense, therefore i was asking him to put that in to see if it is the problem.

[chronister]

You can use checkdnsrr for a valid MX record. I use this to validate email addresses. This way at least a person will HAVE to put in a valid domain, even if it is not actually their email address.

<?php

if(checkdnsrr('yahoo.com' )) {
  echo 'MX record was found';
}
?>

 

Nate

[levi2613]

Chronister: thanks much.  I used this, and it increased the number of emails sent, though I'm still not quite at 100%.  After talking with US Cellular (most of the addresses failing were their SMP addresses), I think it's an issue of them accepting the messages. <shrug>

 

Thanks again.

[levi2613]

I meant "SMS" of course...