PHP, detect problem with mail()?

Does anyone know if it it possible to trap errors/warnings returned by mail() in PHP4? At the moment the following text is displayed at the top of my web page which does not look very good?

Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "broken.smtp.test" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()

TIA

You could suppress the error by prefixing your call with an @ symbol.

$result = @mail(...,...)

As this is a production site you really ought to change your php.ini file to log errors to a file and turn off errors in the output stream (see http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php). This means that your users will not get errors they don't understand and cannot fix while you have a single point of reference to see what problems have occured with your code.

Edited by deleted (Wed 26-Jul-06 18:16:38)

Thanks just what I needed - in case anyone else is reading remove the ). at the end of the link to make it work.