Question

my PHP page currently doesnot have a mail server, instead of throwing an error, is it possible to catch this error and print it out to the user?

this is what I have so far, it just gives an error.

<?php 
$foo = mail('[e-mail]', 'subject', 'message');
if ( $foo == false )
{
echo "no mail server";
}
?>

thanks!

Answer 1

You could open a port to the mail server in question using fsockopen(‘servername/ipaddres’, 25); If it returns content, it means the port is open and that you could ASSUME that there is a mail server.

$errno = 0;
$errstr = '';
$fp = fsockopen("localhost", 25, $errno, $errstr, 5);
if (!$fp) {
    echo "No mail server responded on this server on port 25, validate your configuration";
}

This is by all means very experimental, you need to involve yourself in more work but it should get you started 🙂