scott wrote: >My mail function is sending out a few hundred or so mail address but >keeps hanging when it gets to sending a mail form a certain domain. > Probably DNS. Try doing a "dig thedomain.com" (assuming linux) on the domain it is going to. I suspect there is not an entry thus it will hang until DNS times out.
>As the script hangs at this point I can't send anymore mails once the >script encounters an address from x domain. What would be the best way >to work around this? Why is mail() hanging? > In my opinion, if you are sending all the emails from a single PHP script, do one per script (depends upon how the maximum execution time works). Or use cron/at to do it outside of waiting for a web page. I admit that I use perl for this part, calling it from "at". >How would you suggest incorporating a timeout so that the script >continues once mail() has not exited for more than say 5 seconds???? > mail() is a blocking call, so it won't exit until it has either successfully sent an email or has failed. HTH Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
