Re: Bizarre mail() problem

check you php.ini if you need to change sendmail -t -i to something other. Regards, Andrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "andy thomas" <andy@ic.ac.uk> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: [PHP] Bizarre mail() problem > I have written a script to do some massmailing - it extracts an email > address from a MySQL database and uses it to send a text file as a mail > message. It works but there is a 75 second delay between each message > being sent out! > > This is baffling - there are no delays built into the script and nothing > obvious in our sendmail configuration. As I've got over 38000 addresses to > mail out to, this is a problem - I've got round it for now by running 10 > scripts simultaneously, each handling 1000 addresses and this has got mail > moving. > > The mail() function seems to call sendmail -t -i. This just sits there for > 75 seconds, then sends a message and then waits for another 75 seconds. > Surely this should not happen? > > Here's the relevant parts of the script - the email address is in column > 15 of the MySQL table, so it just extracts field 14 for the email address > data: > > $msg_txt="message.txt"; > > mysql_connect("localhost",$mysql_user,$mysql_pwd); > $query="select * from $table"; > $result=mysql($dbname, $query); > $rows=mysql_numrows($result); > > $r=0; > $f=14; > while ($r < $rows ) { > $address=mysql_result($result,$r,$f); > > mail("$address","$subject","$message","From:$MailFromAddress"); > $r++; > } > > > Any suggestions or pointers to where I'm going wrong will be warmly > received. > > Andy > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >