On 3/7/07, Ori Idan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think the best way is not to send by PHP at all but to set up a mailing
list such as Majordomo or mailman and then use PHP to send to one address,
the list address.
One can also set up an alias that sends email to several recipients at
the mail server level. Some mail servers also support reading the
recipients lists from an LDAP or SQL database.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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Ori Idan
On 3/7/07, Uri Even-Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I wrote a PHP program that sends E-mail to 121 E-mail addresses at
> once [http://www.speedy.net/knesset/]. The problem is, it takes many
> seconds until the program completes sending all the E-mails. I want
> to give the user an instant feedback, and send E-mails later (after
> the HTML output is complete). How do I do it? Can I postpone the
> mail sending function? My program calls sendmail 121 times, and I
> think that's the only slow part of the program. The rest is quite
> fast. Can I call sendmail in such a way that PHP will regain control
> right away? Or alternatively, can I run another PHP script in the
> background?
>
> Below is my mail sending script.
>
> Uri.
>
>
> <?php
> $tmp_addresses_clone= $tmp_addresses;
>
> // Flush the output buffer.
> ob_flush(); flush();
>
> $tmp_count= count($tmp_addresses_clone);
> while ($tmp_count > 0)
> {
> $tmp_random= rand(0, $tmp_count - 1);
>
> // Open Mail Command.
> $tmp_mail_command= '/usr/sbin/sendmail -f ' . $tmp_email . '
> ' . $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . ' > /dev/null
2>&1';
>
> $tmp_mail_file_pointer= popen($tmp_mail_command, "w");
> if ($tmp_mail_file_pointer)
> {
> // Print mail header.
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "From: " .
'=?UTF-8?B?' .
> base64_encode($tmp_name) . '?=' . ' ' . '<' . $tmp_email . '>' .
> "\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "To: " .
> $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . "\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "Subject: " .
'=?UTF-8?B?' .
> base64_encode($tmp_subject) . '?=' . "\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "MIME-Version:
1.0\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "Content-Type:
text/plain;
> charset=UTF-8\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "\n");
>
> // Print mail body.
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, $tmp_content .
"\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "\n");
>
> // Close file.
> pclose($tmp_mail_file_pointer);
> }
>
> echo ($tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . '<br>'
. "\n");
> $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random]=
> $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_count - 1];
> unset($tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_count - 1]);
>
> // Flush the output buffer.
> ob_flush(); flush();
>
> $tmp_count= count($tmp_addresses_clone);
> }
> ?>
>
>
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