Re: Re: dropping mail into queue

Thanks alot!. I will go and give this a try. Thanks alot for replying, I almost gave up on this! On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 05:56, Manuel Lemos wrote: > 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 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >