OK.  here's why I think it's in PHP's SMTP support:

There is an address that fails in 4.06 yet functions in 4.04 - exactly
the same code, same SMTP server, same .ini,  everything the same.

I wouldn't question the class if I hadn't tested my own code and
settings first.  I've been trying to track this down for the past two
weeks and have already been advised by someone on this list that PHP's
SMTP support is not the greatest:

>SMTP code in PHP is not good enough. It needs to be rewritten.
<snip>
>Yasuo Ohgaki


It doesn't do much good to test on a nix box because what I'm looking
for is a solution to a PHP/SMTP problem. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:57 AM
To: PHP General List
Subject: Re: [PHP] defending PHP mail function


On Wednesday 31 October 2001 08:40 am, you wrote:

> for now it's PHP that's in question 

AFAIK, this is the first I've ever heard of probelms with mail() not
sending 
to perfectly valid email addresses.  Scalability issues and other
performance 
problems, sure, but that's a different animal.

Given the number of people that use PHP (and use mail(), especially) I
would 
certainly think this problem would have been reported before if it were
a 
real bug.

So, to be blunt, you probably have a problem with your code, your SMTP 
server, the way you've configured PHP, or something other than mail().
It's 
easy to blame it on mail() and/or PHP, but I think you're barking up the

wrong tree.

Find a forgiving customer who reported the problem, ask for their help
in 
troubleshooting it and then send some test emails from a completely
different 
server, preferably on a *nix platform.  (not because *nix is better than

windows, but because *nix PHP doesn't use smtp for mail delivery)

--kurt

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