Re: Issues with Mail (SMTP) and Mime_Mail

Hi! I'm just a reader here, I don't use yet PEAR. But, I can give some tips: first: compile php as standalone for this kind of jobs, and don't do I from a webserver, 'cause you also have timeouts from server and other issues ... second: this unset is erasing the Subject third: this process is usually very heavy, so avoid adding any overload to it ... > Hello, > > i'm currently modifying an online mailing tool so that it uses the > Mime Mail and Mail packages. > > Before the changes, i was sending the emails using PHP's mail > function, and everything was going fine. Now that i'm using > Mail::factory('smtp'), i run into big issues, and i need to know if > i'm doing something wrong before i start editing the whole package :) > > First weird thing, not all the emails are sent; I have in my list like > 3500 addresses, and it stops after 500 or 600 messages sent. The > browser keeps on loading during a few minutes, then displays a blank > page, and a DNS error a bit later. I can see in exim's log that the > send process is not stopped. Only a few minutes later, it stops. > Of course, there is no time limit on the script that sends the > emails... > > Second one, most messages are sent twice ! Once, then another time at > about 5 - 6 minutes later. > > When i run a test with a small amount of recipients, there are > absolutely no errors, and the messages are only sent once. > Do you think that the error(s) could come from the smtp server ? If > the answer is yes, then what can i do ? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Katana mailto:katana@katana-inc.com > > > Addon: Here is the part of my code that sends the emails. > > $headers = array( > 'From' => $from = > stripslashes(trim($_POST['mailsender_name'])), > 'Reply-To' => $from, > 'Return-path' => $from, > 'Return-Errors-To' => $from, > 'X-Mailer' => sprintf('Interact HTMLMailer v%s', > $version), > 'Subject' => sprintf('[Interact Mailing Lists Manager] > %s', stripslashes(trim($_POST['mail_subject']))), > 'To' => $to > ); > > > // Send the confirmation email to the the user > $body = $mime->get(); > $hdrs = $mime->headers($headers); > $mail =& Mail::factory('smtp', array('host' => > 'localhost')); > $res = $mail->send($to, $hdrs, $body); > unset($mime->_headers); > > // Send the mailing to every recipient of the mailing list > $headers['Subject'] = $_POST['mail_subject']; > $mailsSent = 0; $errors = 0; > foreach($emailsdest as $emaildest) { > $headers['To'] = $emaildest['email']; > $body = $mime->get(); > $hdrs = $mime->headers($headers); > if ($res = $mail->send($emaildest['email'], $hdrs, $body)) { > $mailsSent++; > } > else { > $errors++; > } > unset($mime->_headers, $hdrs); > } -- Andres Ferrando <anferr@mecon.gov.ar>