Re: Background process (sending mails)

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Simply configure your MTA to queue requests coming from PHP. Your php.ini > file has the sendmail invocation line that is used by PHP's mail() > function. Most MTA's out there have a sendmail-like interface and most > have a way to tell it to simply queue the request and return immediately. > > For sendmail you tell it to queue by adding a option to the command line > specified in php.ini using the -o flag. Check your sendmail docs for the > actual option, but on my system my docs say: > > DeliveryMode=x > Set the delivery mode to x. Delivery modes are `i' for > interactive (synchronous) delivery, `b' for background > (asynchronous) delivery, `q' for queue only - i.e., actual > delivery is done the next time the queue is run, and > d' for deferred - the same as q' except that > database > lookups for maps which have set the -D option (default > for the host map) are avoided. > > Don't forget that if you just queue the mssages, you need to flush the > queue every now and then. Traditionally that is done by a cron job that > runs periodically and calls sendmail to flush the queue. But I'm running on a shared hosting server, I'm not able to modify Sendmail's configuration :( Thank you anyway for your help, any other idea ? -- Pupeno: pupeno@pupeno.com http://www.pupeno.com --- Help the hungry children of Argentina, please go to (and make it your homepage): http://www.porloschicos.com/servlet/PorLosChicos?comando=donar