PHP mail script to bad address not bouncing

[steve]

I'm trying to create a PHP script to send mail to a list of addresses.
I'm sending mail okay, because the messages arrive in an account that I
can check, but messages to a known bad address aren't being bounced
back to the sending address.

Here's the line of code I'm using:

$mailok = mail("[e-mail],[e-mail]","this is a test",
"this is a test", "From: [e-mail]");

I receive the message at [e-mail] just fine. If I send a
manual message to [e-mail], the message bounces. If I manually
bounce the message that I received at [e-mail] then it
bounces back to [e-mail].

I need to figure out why messages to [e-mail] sent by the PHP
script aren't bouncing back to [e-mail].

[Bert Melis]

st***@hunnicutt.com wrote:

I'm trying to create a PHP script to send mail to a list of addresses.
I'm sending mail okay, because the messages arrive in an account that I
can check, but messages to a known bad address aren't being bounced
back to the sending address.

Here's the line of code I'm using:

$mailok = mail("[e-mail],[e-mail]","this is a test",
"this is a test", "From: [e-mail]");

I receive the message at [e-mail] just fine. If I send a
manual message to [e-mail], the message bounces. If I manually
bounce the message that I received at [e-mail] then it
bounces back to [e-mail].

I need to figure out why messages to [e-mail] sent by the PHP
script aren't bouncing back to [e-mail].

The bouncing is handled by the server the mail is sent to. If that
server just deletes mail to bad addresses, nothing will bounce.

Perhaps someone can tell us what will happen when the other server is
not existing?

[Geoff Muldoon]

st***@hunnicutt.com says...

I'm trying to create a PHP script to send mail to a list of addresses.
I'm sending mail okay, because the messages arrive in an account that I
can check, but messages to a known bad address aren't being bounced
back to the sending address.

Here's the line of code I'm using:

$mailok = mail("[e-mail],[e-mail]","this is a test",
"this is a test", "From: [e-mail]");

I need to figure out why messages to [e-mail] sent by the PHP
script aren't bouncing back to [e-mail].

Bounces are usually sent to the "reply-to" rather than the "from" address,
and you haven't set one. In any case you are better off setting a
canonical sender address as well as or instead of setting one in the
header, as some spam-catchers will ditch your mail.

Try:
$mailok = mail("[e-mail],[e-mail]","this is a test",
"this is a test", "From: [e-mail]", "-f [e-mail]");

As suggested in:
http://php.planetmirror.com/manual/e...mail.php#51406

Geoff M