Return error to function calling PHPMailer instead of global error?

[jabcreations]

PHPMailer has been great though I just tried to send an email that was chopped up by someone who clearly has no anti-bot defense on their website. Then PHPMailer triggered a global error instead of return an error response to my calling function.

php-mailer\PHPMailer.php at line 1187

PHPMailer\Exception Object: [message:protected] => Invalid address

Either from $mail->addAddress or $mail->send();. I'm not asking for debugging, I'm simply asking how to change PHPMailer so it returns the error so I can handle it gracefully. In example: letting the user know the to address is malformed instead of say, zero response from the server! Thanks in advance for any constructuve/helpful replies.

[Synchro]

If it threw an exception, it means you created the instance using new PHPMailer(true), and that it was unhandled means that you didn't wrap your addAddress() or send() call in a try/catch block and deal with the exception they threw. If you don't want PHPMailer to throw exceptions, don't ask it to, but if you do ask it to, it's up to you to catch them.

[jabcreations]

Changing the initial call to new PHPMailer(false) fixed it, for the most part.

Then I was able to return the error with essentially the following:

try
{
 $result = $mail->send();

 if ($result)
 {
 }
 else
 {
  $return['error'] = $mail->ErrorInfo;
 }
}

Now there are no more PHP errors, just nice clean HTTP user errors. I hope my clarification helps others. Thanks for your guidance!