Getting mail for a bounced email

Question

I am sending email using mail() The problem is I am not getting an email to a specific email id if the recipient id does not exists, I have tried the following code.

$email="[email protected]";
$usermsg="some message here";
$subject = 'Your Account Registration Confirmation';
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";    
$headers .= "From: Our Team <[email protected]>" . "\r\n";              
$headers.="Return-Path:<my email id goes here>\r\n";
mail($email, $subject, $usermsg, $headers);

I have also tried with

mail("[email protected]", "subject", "body of message", "From: [email protected]", "-f<my email id>");

So you are writing me those mails? Btw as far I remember you always need to use \r\n as line delimiter. — rekire, Apr 03 '14 at 04:53
possible duplicate of [Catch email bounce](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7874192/catch-email-bounce) — tripleee, Apr 03 '14 at 05:06
I want that a mail should go to my email id if it bounces, when I say bounces means if the recipient email id does not exist. — Srikanta, Apr 03 '14 at 05:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 03 '14 at 06:27

Mail function in PHP mail() only informs about E-Mail has been accepted by the outgoing server, and plays no role in checking E-Mail's actual delivery status.

You can check your mail log /var/log/mail.log if sendmail is configured properly.

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Getting mail for a bounced email

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