PHP :: Bug #5630 :: mail() function erroneously returns true

Bug #5630	mail() function erroneously returns true
Submitted:	2000-07-16 22:48 UTC	Modified:	2000-08-03 21:26 UTC
From:	vvortex1 at home dot com	Assigned:
Status:	Closed	Package:	Misbehaving function
PHP Version:	4.0.1pl2	OS:	UNIX (FreeBSD)
Private report:	No	CVE-ID:	None

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[2000-07-16 22:48 UTC] vvortex1 at home dot com

This bug was posted in the manual annotations more than a year ago, but it still isn't fixed. When the mail server reports an error, such as 550, the mail() function returns true. This is particularly problematic because it leaves no warning whatsoever that the message wasn't sent.

I'm on a shared host, so I don't have access to php.ini, but I can provide the results of phpinfo() if necessary. I was also able to reproduce the problem on my own system (Windows Me/Apache1.3.12/PHP4.0.1) and on a WindowsNT 4 SP6 partition with the same configuration.

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[2000-08-01 05:26 UTC] andi@php.net

Please change line 154 in php4/ext/standard/mail.c from:
if (ret == -1) {
to:
if (ret != 0) {
and let us know if this fixes your problem.

[2000-08-03 21:26 UTC] hholzgra@php.net

 the unix version of mail will now check
the sendmail return code

 the windows version is still broken and
needs a rewrite badly, but this i'll put into
another bug report

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