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Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent [message #181905 is a reply to message #181855]

Fri, 21 June 2013 18:30

GravyCode
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On Friday, June 21, 2013 1:40:40 AM UTC+8, Twayne wrote:
> I'm a PHP near-newbie working fairly successfully on creating a secure
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> PHP e-mail (mail()) function. It occurs to me that the only way a user
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> knows (thinks) a form has been sent, is that I tell him so either in a
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> line of code or with a Thank You page.
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>
>
> With that in mind, is there any way with PHP to actually tell that a
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> message was actually sent? That it at least was mailed out?
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>
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> I came across retval() and thought that might be way to do it, but I
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> misinterpreted it, thinking it was a PHP function, which it turns out to
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> not be. Therefore I'm looking for some way to authenticate that the
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> e-mail actually left the server.
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>
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> Any suggestions?
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> Thanks,
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>
>
> Twayne`

I really like using PHPMailer, Create a mailer object with whatever settings you like, I usually run mine through gmail since I don't send many and they're mostly to myself.

https://github.com/Synchro/PHPMailer

//Setup
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail = $this->mail;
$mail->IsSMTP();
// enables SMTP debug information (for testing) // 1 = errors and messages // 2 = messages only
// $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465';
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Username = $account;
$mail->Password = $password;
$mail->FromName = $from;
//Sending
$mail->AddAddress($to);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message; //HTML Body
if(!$mail->Send()){
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}

It gives Error messages, but what types and to what extend you might have to check yourself. But if you're using a foreign SMTP server it should be simpler to verify the message was sent, but you wont really know if it was received.

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If you're just wanting to get user input for your own use and not sending data to others, you could simply add the data to a database - which you can confirm - then send an email with a link to yourself to view it. This way even if you don't receive the email you still have the data on the server. (You could also send the data in the email and store it on the server).

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With a rather undetailed question as to your purposes and requirements, this is maybe the most helpful info I can provide while make some assumptions.

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		FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Thu, 20 June 2013 17:40
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 20 June 2013 17:53
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: J.O. Aho on Thu, 20 June 2013 18:18
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 20 June 2013 18:24
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 20 June 2013 18:40
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: gordonb.vb4vo on Thu, 20 June 2013 19:44
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 20 June 2013 21:03
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Fri, 21 June 2013 18:06
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Sat, 22 June 2013 15:42
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 23 June 2013 11:13
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 23 June 2013 11:22
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Sun, 23 June 2013 17:07
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Sun, 23 June 2013 17:00
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: J.O. Aho on Sun, 23 June 2013 18:22
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Sun, 23 June 2013 18:53
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: gordonb.4qaft on Mon, 24 June 2013 19:43
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Peter H. Coffin on Mon, 24 June 2013 20:09
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 25 June 2013 13:19
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 25 June 2013 14:11
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Tue, 25 June 2013 15:43
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Tue, 25 June 2013 15:32
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: gordonb.htsnc on Thu, 27 June 2013 15:57
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Thu, 27 June 2013 19:13
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Arno Welzel on Fri, 28 June 2013 09:43
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: gordonb.k0cb7 on Thu, 20 June 2013 20:46
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 20 June 2013 21:03
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: gordonb.udxst on Sat, 22 June 2013 00:26
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 22 June 2013 00:36
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Sat, 22 June 2013 16:04
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Christoph Michael Bec on Thu, 20 June 2013 21:39
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Tim Streater on Fri, 21 June 2013 09:11
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 21 June 2013 10:25
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Tim Streater on Fri, 21 June 2013 11:27
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 21 June 2013 16:59
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Tim Streater on Fri, 21 June 2013 17:25
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 21 June 2013 22:43
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Tim Streater on Sat, 22 June 2013 12:45
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Sat, 22 June 2013 16:20
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: Peter H. Coffin on Thu, 20 June 2013 22:27
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 21 June 2013 06:57
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: bill on Sat, 22 June 2013 16:02
		Re: FORMS, validating mail was sent By: GravyCode on Fri, 21 June 2013 18:30

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