Re: Re: Best way to mass mail

Hello, on 09/12/2005 06:48 PM Chris W. Parker said the following:

If you use the mail() function, it uses whatever is installed in your machine because by default it calls the sendmail program.

I am aware of that but the problem I'm having is inconsistent mailings. For example, an email is supposed to be sent to me everytime someone creates a new account on our website but I only get about 1 out of 5 of these emails and I have no idea why. I was trying to take PHP out of the loop with regards to sending email so that I could rule out PHP as being the problem.

If you use PHP mail() function it just calls the sendmail wrapper. If you loose messages, you should check the logs of the installed MTA. Your problem seems to be misconfiguration like you are not setting a valid return path address or your machine does not have a reverse record for its IP in the DNS. For certain kinds of problems, I usually recommend this class that comes with a wrapper function named smtp_mail(). It works like the mail() function but injects the message via the SMTP server. However, I am not sure if it will work any better if your problems are one of those that I suggested above. In any case, you can try it: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage You also would need this: http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html