Re: dropping mail into queue

Hello, On 09/08/2002 11:51 AM, Petre Agenbag wrote:

Hi list Is is possible to change the default behaviour of the mail() function to send the message to the queue instead of trying to send it immediately? I did do some research into this a while back, but it never really got to a point where I was completely satisfied with the results. I can recall from then that the behaviour of the mail() function was inherited from the way sendmail was configured on the server, but I cannot go that route ( ie, reconfigure sendmail to send all mail requests to the queue, as the server is not only a webserver, but servers my clients normal e-mail as well), so I'm basically asking if it is possible to "override" the sendmail behaviour when you issue the mail() function, or to even compose and write the message directly to the /var/spool/mqueue folder ( that would obviously NOT use the mail() function). The reason for all this is that there are some clients that are abusing/miss-using the mail() function to query a mysql db of 20K users with a while() loop and then doing a mail() inside the while, this is causing some serious problems on my server, and I'm trying to look for ways to put a tab on this.So any other suggestions are also very welcome.

You need to set the DeliveryMode option to queue. Take a look at this class and in particular to the sendmail_mail.php scripth that is a wrapper arround the class to emulate the mail() function but in a way that lets you configure sendmail delivery mode directly from your scripts. Set the delivery_mode variable of the $message_object to SENDMAIL_DELIVERY_QUEUE . http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos