PHP: Mail bounces from mail sent FROM php?

[justravis]

I wrote an email testing script.  The from address is one of my email addresses.  I hoped that if the email address did not exist, I would receive a bounced message, but that is not happening.  Ideas?

 

thanks.

[Illusion]

we can't imagine what u have written there, so post the code.

[justravis]

I SINCERELY apologize...dont kno wut i was thinking

 

<?php

$perday=4;

$inc=24/$perday;

$timeadjusted=mktime(date('H')-2);

#Midnight outputs as 0, but for the purpose of the if statement, it seems to be valued at 24
if(!(date('H', $timeadjusted)%$inc) || $_GET[skiptime])
{
        $emails=array('noemail@poweron.com','support@poweron.com', 'travis@poweron.com', 'travis@jt.com',
'travis@rtb.cc', 'travis@sdsoccer.org');
        #$emails=array('support@powerontechnologies.com', 'travis.perreira@powerontechnologies.com', 'travis@justravis.com', 'travis@raise-the-bar.cc', 'trav
is@sdwcsoccer.org');

        echo "<u>Email Addresses Tested:</u><br />\n";

        $subject='Email Test - ' . date('H:i \o\n l, F d, Y', $timeadjusted);
        $body='Test from ' . gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR);
        $from='From: emailtest@powerontechnologies.com';

        foreach($emails AS $to)
        {
                echo "$to - ";

                if(mail($to, $subject, $body, $from))
                {
                        echo "test email sent<br />\n";
                }
                else
                {
                        echo "error occured<br />\n";
                }
        }
}
else
{
        echo date('H', $timeadjusted) . "%$inc=" . date('H', $timeadjusted)%$inc;
}

?>

 

Any Ideas?

 

 

Thanks!

[Illusion]

mail($to, $subject, $body, $from,-f $from)

[ReDucTor]

PHP's mail function returns true if its accepted for delivery, which the only way it isnt is if you dont have sendmail or pop settings setup. So do not rely on this for validating if an email was successfully received.

 

I suggest if you want to detect bouncing send emails to your self using the Errors-To header.

 

        $subject='Email Test - ' . date('H:i on l, F d, Y', $timeadjusted);
        $body='Test from ' . gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR);
        $from='From: emailtest@powerontechnologies.com';
        $errorsto = 'Errors-To: webmaster@powerontechnologies.com';

 

 

if(mail($to, $subject, $body, $from."\r\n".$errorsto))

 

If you want to get into automated systems you will need to check your SMTP server and what sort of scripts you can have process incoming emails, and then you can also make use of Message-ID header if you really want to track it down quicker. But unless you have large mailing lists automated systems for bounced emails arent that neccessary

[justravis]

exactly, i want errors emailed to me.

 

i added the errorto header, but i hav not received any bounce emails.

 

thanks for yr time,

 

travis