Getting error message by error code

[AkinOlawale]

Hi.

I am trying to implement a resend mail feature in my application. Basically should there be a connection issue or other related problems, the application saves the failed message to a database and then retries again after some minutes.

Is there anyway to get an error code via errorInfo variable? For example, if it is an authentication problem, error code can be 3. etc?

[XL-2000]

Although this seems a valid question at first glance, you want to resend regardless of the error right?
Where do you need the errorcode for? Next to this, keep in mind that auto-resending might be a bad idea i.e. if you run into quotum or abuse limitations.
Also, any error once the email is delivered to the mail server can not be caught on application-level, so keep in mind this will not be full proof.

[Synchro]

I think this is a reasonable request. PHPMailer is usually set up in a fixed configuration, where it is always sending through the same mail server, and so any problems tend to be dealt with interactively during development, at which time descriptive error messages are appropriate.

Send-time SMTP errors already provide SMTP error codes, and bounces (which PHPMailer doesn’t attempt to handle) have embedded error information. Other runtime errors are harder to deal with because they do indeed lack clear error codes that would help you handle them programmaticly.

Something like an ErrorCode property that contains a numeric error code that could be used alongside the ErrorInfo property. Note that the Exception class already provides a value for that, but PHPMailer does not require the use of exceptions - the way exceptions are implemented is a little strange, but you can get more info from them than you can with ErrorInfo alone.

[AkinOlawale]

@Synchro Yes that's exactly what i have in mind. The ErrorInfo property could be improved to contain numeric code. This should be a feature request