Zend Framework 2 - Sending form using Zend\Mail

Question

So i'm making a contact page. Of course it will have a form, which needs to be sent. I made the class to send email:

<?php
namespace Site\Mail;

use Zend\Mail\Message;
use Zend\Mail\Transport\Sendmail;

class SendEMail {

    public function SendEMail($to, $from, $subject, $body) {
        $message = new Message();
        $message->addTo($to)
                ->addFrom($from)
                ->setSubject($subject)
                ->setBody($body);
        $transport = new Sendmail();
        try {
            $transport->send($message);
            return true;
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            return false;
        }
    }
}

?>

In the controller i have

public function emailAction () {
    $request = $this->getRequest();
    $vm = new ViewModel();
    $vm->setTerminal(true);
    if ($request->isPost()) {
        $to = "some@mail.com";
        $from = $request->getPost("email");
        $subject = "Messaggio inviato da ".$request->getPost("nome")." (tel. ".$request->getPost("phone").")";
        $body = $request->getPost("messaggio");
        $mail = new SendEMail($to, $from, $subject, $body);

        if (!$mail) {
            $vm->setVariables(array(
                "result" => "no"
            ));
            return $vm;
        } else {
        $vm->setVariables(array(
            "result" => "yes"
        ));
        return $vm;
        }
    }
    $vm->setVariables(array(
            "result" => "This script needs POSTDATA."
    ));
    return $vm;
}

I disabled the layout to allow an Ajax/Jquery script to load it, and it works like a charm (i'll show you it although i don't think it's causing my issue)

$(document).on('submit', 'form', function() {
    $.ajax({
        url:$("form").attr("action"),
        method:"POST",
        beforeSend: function() {
            $("form").css("opacity", 0.5);
        },
        complete: function() {
            $("form").css("opacity", 1);
        },
        success: function(responseText) {
            $("body").append("<div id='popupmessage'>"+responseText+"</div>");
        },
        error: function(errorThrown) {
            $("body").append("<div id='popupmessage'>"+errorThrown+"</div>");
        }
    }).always(function() {
        $("#popupmessage").delay(1000).fadeOut(300, function () {
            if($(this).length>0) {
                $(this).remove();
            }
        });
    });
    return false;
});

The problem is that my SendEMail() function looks like always return true, even if i put wrong settings in sendmail.ini (and i'm using sendmail). What's my mistake? I appreciate any help. Thank you.

Answer 1

While I was implementing my email method I was never able to get the exception with:

catch (\Exception $e) { return false;}

For me it was not so important to get it though. But at some point I noticed that I was getting an exception when the domain did not exist or it was wrong so I narrowed down the exception to.

} catch (\Zend\Mail\Protocol\Exception\RuntimeException $e) {
            $error = true;
        }

So if this is not what you want I would assume that making this change would provide you more than the runtimeException or you can keep it the way it is assuming this return you the result you want

} catch (\Zend\Mail\Protocol\Exception $e) {
                $error = true;
            }

I hope this helps. Good luck.

Update:

I noticed I am using SMTP Transport (more details) So that is why I am using the protocol Exception. If you check inside the Zend Library you will see another folder Zend\Mail\Exception. So try that inside the try catch e.g.

} catch (\Zend\Mail\Exception $e) {
    $error = true;
 }

If this does not work try to narrow down the exception: Inside the folder you will see 6 exception classes test each one inside the try catch (\Zend\Mail\Exception\AnExceptionClass)

I hope this helps.