Re: Odd problem using sendmail - possibly to do with set_time_limit?

Jon Abernathy wrote:

After reviewing your code, I was wondering if there was a reason you aren't using PHP's built-in mail() function, rather that using popen() and a series of fputs(), which seems rather expensive, especially inside of a loop. Also,

Sounds like a much better idea, looking at the mail() function. I'm more familiar with using sendmail etc., so I gravitated towards that - I should have examined my options more thoroughly.

you only need to use set_time_limit() once, outside of your loop-- pass 0 as the parameter, which basically turns off the timeout.

Ahh, really. That's interesting - I'd assumed that this wouldn't work as it would allow a badly-written script to get itself into some kind of infinite loop easier - but I'm sure you're right.

Here's how I would code this:

    $counter = 0;
    set_time_limit(0);
    if ( $fp = fopen($list, 'r') ) {
        while ( $address = fgets($fp, 255) ) {
            mail( $address, $subject, "header goes here\n$body\nfoot goes

here\n", "From: Sender <sender@domain.com>\n" );

            $counter++;
        }
        fclose( $fp );
        print("Message successfully sent to $counter recipients from the

$list");

    }

Much more concise - thanks.

Hope this helps.

Indeed it does - thank you (again) very much! A.