php mail tracking

[kmm2908]

I send out emails via our smtp server from a php script. Is there anyway I can track the emails that were sent out?
If they were sent manually I could look at the sent folder, anybody know anyway to do this with emails sent via php script?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Robert Taylor]

After mail(...);
INSERT an entry into a "log" TABLE that you CREATE to hold whatever fields you want.

[kmm2908]

Yes that makes sense Robert. Thank you!

[djmatt]

You can also repeat the mail() code with you being the recipient. I use that to alert myself immediately when someone signs a guestbook or writes a blog or registers.

[felgall]

You can also repeat the mail() code with you being the recipient. I use that to alert myself immediately when someone signs a guestbook or writes a blog or registers.

Doing that means that you are sending twice as many emails which effectively halves the number you can send. Logging them in a database provides the same information without using up half your email limit.