Re: Re: Bulk Email [solution found!]

i tried it using the 5th parameter with -odd and the mail got qued but i also need to set -fuser@user.com (so i get those bounces) but i got <fuser@user.com -odd> for the return path in the email. i then tried it with the -odd first and it qued the mail but didn't set the return path, i also want to set it so it only returns the headers using -Rhdrs so need to set 3 options when sendmail is called. can you set multiple options with the 5th parameter? i would have thought it would append the stuff in the 5th to the sendmail path set in php.ini but it doesn't seem to work that way. i can do this fine by using popen() and adding the parameters to the path so i can't see why it doesn't play with the mail function. Paul Roberts http://www.paul-roberts.com mail@paul-roberts.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 2:36 AM Subject: [PHP] Re: Bulk Email [solution found!] > Hello, > > On 08/16/2002 05:37 PM, Daren Cotter wrote: > > First, a recap of my problem: > > > > I need to send personalized emails to my member list > > on a daily basis. I use PHP to query the MySQL > > database, and loop through the results using the > > mail() function. Problem: very slow, browser/php times > > out, etc. > > > > Solution: > > > > First, I configure sendmail to use "queueonly" as the > > DeliveryMethod (see sendmail.cf) instead of > > "background". Then, when my PHP script runs, mailings > > simply get queued instead of actually delivered. This > > is a x10 speed increase. My script queues > > approximately 1,000 mailings per minute (a x10 speed > > increase). Then, I modified the > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail script to process the queue > > every 5 minutes, instead of the default one hour. This > > insures that the mailings actually get sent soon after > > they're queued, and you won't have to wait for > > important emails to come through. > > As I mentioned before this solution is set for disaster as you grow into > larger number of recipients. The problem is that queuing separate > messages for each recipient will fill up your disk. But that is not all. > The eventual message bounces that you will get will only aggravate your > problem. If you can live without personalization, don't think twice, > forget it. If you have doubts, think again. > > > > > The problem with the above solution used to be this: > > certain emails generated from my site (welcome emails, > > password lookup emails, etc) need to be sent > > IMMEDIATELY, and cannot wait in the queue for 5 > > minutes. The solution for this: not using the built-in > > mail() command in PHP. I created my own mail script > > (by modifying something someone else already did) > > which opens a socket directly with the mail server. > > Code is below. > > > > // Sends the email directly to the mail server using > > SMTP. This is done > > // so sendmail can be setup using the queue method on > > the server, and > > // confirmation emails, etc, can be sent immediately > > to the member. > > function smtp_mail($to, $from_name, $from_email, > > $reply_to_email, $subject, $body) { > > $smtp = fsockopen("your_mail_server_here", 25); > > I am not sure that sending to the local mailer queue via SMTP would be > any better than using sendmail itself to put the message there. Anyway, > I am afraid that the message will still wait for sendmail to process it > > > > if ($smtp == 0) > > return 0; > > fputs($smtp,"helo > > machines_host_and_domain_name_here\r\n"); > > $line = fgets($smtp, 1024); > > fputs($smtp,"mail from: $from_email\r\n"); > > $line = fgets($smtp, 1024); > > fputs($smtp,"rcpt to: $to\r\n"); > > $line = fgets($smtp, 1024); > > fputs($smtp,"data\r\n"); > > $line = fgets($smtp, 1024); > > fputs($smtp,"From: $from_name <$from_email>\r\n"); > > fputs($smtp,"Reply-To: $reply_to_email\r\n"); > > fputs($smtp,"To: $to\r\n"); > > fputs($smtp,"Subject: $subject\r\n"); > > fputs($smtp,"\r\n"); > > fputs($smtp,"$body\r\n"); > > fputs($smtp,".\r\n"); > > $line = fgets($smtp, 1024); > > fputs($smtp, "QUIT\r\n"); > > fclose($smtp); > > return 1; > > } > > I am afraid this code needs a lot of work or else it will choke on some > servers due to multi-line responses, maybe not on the actual sendmail > version and configuration you are using, but definetely on some SMTP > servers. > > > -- > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >