On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Andrey Hristov wrote:
> check you php.ini if you need to change sendmail -t -i to something other.
We are still having problems with this. Doing another mailshot, the script
crawled at 1 message every 75 seconds. After starting 10 more scripts,
each script was putting out one message every 75 seconds. Suddenly, after
about 40 minutes of this, all 11 scripts suddenly accelerated up to full
speed, load av hit 8+ and the mailshot completed in less than 1 hour!
I'm now doing another mail blast using just 5 parallel scripts - it's
crawling at the moment but it will be interesting to see what happens in
about half an hour's time.
Andy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andy thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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
> >
> >
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