Is there a way to detect if the mail() function was succesful?

[Xurion]

I have a line of code in my php page that send an email with the following code:

mail('me@mydomain.com','my subject','email text',$mailheaders);

When the page loads, it will display the confirmation message saying thank you etc. But if for whatever reason the smtp of the server is down, if there any php that can detect this?

Thx in adv.

Xur~

[alpine]

[code]
<?php

$status = mail('me@mydomain.com','my subject','email text',$mailheaders);

if($status == 1)
{
  // mail() returned true
}
else
{
  // failed
}

?>[/code]

That's about the closest you get to a success-machine

[JasonLewis]

the mail() function returns true if successfull or false if failed. so this would work:

[code=php:0]
if(mail('me@mydomain.com','my subject','email text',$mailheaders)){
echo "Message was sent!";
}else{
echo "Problem sending message!";
}
[/code]

[Jessica]

It can only tell if the mail was accepted for delivery. There are other factors that can stop mail from being sent or recieved, which PHP cannot tell.