how about emailing a link to where the file is allowing it to be downloaded, base64 encoded files are 33% larger than the original. Some mail servers don't like large atachments.
On Jan 14, 3:40 pm, Super Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm writing a little script that will backup MySQL databases and email > the backups to me. > > I'm using mail() and the backups are attached to the message in > base64. > > Everything is working fine except if the backup is larger than about > 7MB, in which case the call to mail() seems to hang. No error > messages are generated and the script doesn't even seem to time out > (I've left it running for over half an hour!) Smaller backups are > being sent ok. > > Is this a known problem with mail()? > > I'm using PHP 4.4.7 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
