Am 03.11.2013 05:26, schrieb Paul C: > phpmailer, or any other mime class, is not giving you the actual response > code of the end delivery of the email, > unless you are directly sending your email from phpmailer (which is possible > but not intelligent). It can be > confusing to people when they don't understand the transport of the message > to its final destination. > > So your 2xx response you got from phpmailer means you successfully delivered > the email from your script to your > postfix mta, that 2xx response means postfix has accepted the message and > will process it. If the final destination > of the message was to an email address on your server, postfix would finish > the delivery by sending the message to > the local mailbox, but in the hotmail example, postfix takes the message from > you successfully, puts it in the > queue, and then attempts to connect to hotmail and do the entire smtp > conversation all over again with hotmail, > where hotmail would give postfix the response code of that attempt. This > response has absolutely nothing to do with > the response you got from phpmailer.
and how is this different to any other e-mail you send over SMTP? if it fails you get a bounce from your postfix server to the envelope sender and if you do not get a bounce after 5 days it was delivered - nothing new http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path http://www.postfix.org/VERP_README.html
