[jon31]

Hey guys,

Recently, my server has stopped sending e-mail with the PHP mail() function. Does anyone know how to trap what the error might be? As of right now, my code looks like this:

$user_email = "jon@jmarus.com";
$header = "From: Jon Marus <jon@jmarus.com>\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: Jon Marus <jon@jmarus.com>\r\n";
$subject = "Test E-mail";
$message = "This is a test e-mail.";


if (mail($user_email, $subject, $message, $header)) {
echo "<p>E-mail sent.</p>";
} else {
echo "<p>There was a problem with the server. Please try again later.</p>";
}

And it just returns: There was a problem with the server. Please try again later.

But I need a better error message to report to my webhost, who is getting extremely upset with me, because he says everything is fine.

Thanks!
Jon Marus

[insha]

I found this while googleing (sp?); the relevant text is quoted below for your convenince:

This script will alert the webmaster quickly if an error occurs on a PHP Web page by emailing the person details of the error. This is very useful for Web sites with part-time webmasters and large ones where not every page can be tested by the webmaster.

You need to define 2 variables, $gAdminMail which is the email address of the webmaster, and $gErrorPage which is the page to redirect to if an error occurs.

It makes use of the PHP4 feature set_error_handler, which lets PHP call a user-defined function when an error occurs.

You need to have mail() properly configured on your system.

Place the following code at the beginning of your PHP files:

[php]/* decide what errors to report */
error_reporting (E_ERROR | E_WARNING| E_NOTICE);

$gAdminMail = 'webmaster@dot.com'; $gErrorPage = '/error.htm';

/* error handler function */
function MailErrorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile='?', $errline= '?') {
global $gAdminMail, $gErrorPage;
if (($errno & error_reporting()) == 0) /* ignore error */
return;
$err = '';
switch($errno) {
case E_ERROR:
$err = 'FATAL';
break;
case E_WARNING:
$err = 'ERROR';
break;
case E_NOTICE:
return; /* E_NOTICE is normally harmless */
}
mail($gAdminMail, "PHP: $errfile, $errline", "$errfile, Line $errline\n$err($errno)\n$errstr");
print '<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;url='.$gErrorPage.'">';
die();
}
set_error_handler('MailErrorHandler');
[/php]

Hope this helps; as I tried your code on my server and it worked perfectly. You can also do a phpinfo() on your webhost and see if they have the smtp functionality enabled, a long shot, I know; but it might work.