Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
Great script! I just used it with the following text:
Subject: Please Do Something for Polard Today
Please do something for Polard today.
You're welcome,
Chaim
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:51, Uri Even-Chen 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.
>
>
>$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] . '' . "\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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Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 3/8/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: use dhtml to fake the 'sending process' I'm not that familiar with dhtml. How do I do it? Use Javascript to show an animation of 'sending ... sending ... sent1' Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
On 3/8/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: use dhtml to fake the 'sending process' I'm not that familiar with dhtml. How do I do it? Uri. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote: presses "send", but I don't want the user to wait before he sees the confirmation message. Maybe I will just move the PHP script to the end of the file, after the tag. Will it work? use dhtml to fake the 'sending process' P = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
I was wondering, maybe I can just add the & sign to the sendmail command line? Will it work? If this line is executed 121 times from my script? Here is the line: $tmp_mail_command= '/usr/sbin/sendmail -f ' . $tmp_email . ' ' . $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . ' > /dev/null 2>&1'; Uri. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
On 3/7/07, Boaz Rymland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, What you are referring to is off-line execution of PHP. I know there are ways to do it in other web-targeted scripting languages. In PHP I'm not aware of free implementation of this functionality. I am familiar with commercial solution for that. Zend (which is where your truly works for) happens to sell a server side application which does this, among the rest. Its far from free (in any meaning), but it does just what you are looking for... :-) . For more details check here: http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform/what_s_new (see "Job Queues" - first in the "new features" list). Thanks for the feedback. Actually, I'm looking for something free (beer), free (speech) and easy to implement. It's just a free service I give to the public. I know it can be used to spam knesset members, but maybe this will convince them to legally ban spam :-) I could also set up a mail alias that will forward mail to all the 121 addresses (includng [EMAIL PROTECTED]), but I want each MK to be the only recipient to a "personal" message sent to him. Maybe I should have impleneted it using a procmail script. But I don't know procmail that well. Do you? And besides, if I set up a mail alias and spam is sent to it, then they will really receive a lot of spam from my server. I don't think my server will be marked as spammer in RBL for this little feature... but who knows? I can always remove it if I want to. But on the other hand, I might get phone calls from angry police officers asking me to reveal IP addresses of users who used it to send anonymous mail. I already received such calls in the past. I never revealed any information, except once, when they came to my house with a court order. But I regret it. Next time I will not reveal anything. I don't track anything anyway (except what the server does automatically. And please, government people, pretend you haven't read that!) On 3/7/07, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happens when spammers start using your little script? or maybe just stupid kids start sending curses "just to see if it works"? What if your user wants to send just the MKs interested in green energy or just the ones involved in fighting traffic dangers? you wrote a primitive little webform that will get your website either blocked or sued faster than you can speed-dial your lawyer. You are right, it might be used by spammers who want to specifically harass knesset members (as opposed to spammers who want to make money). But I don't mind. I'm not doing anything illegal here. I also decided to allow anonymous mailing (forged address), since SMTP allows it too. The sender's E-mail address is checked to be legal, but it can be [EMAIL PROTECTED] as far as I'm concerned. I don't mind. I don't think knesset members will sue me I'm just the service provider here (not the sender). You put it in a queue, tell the user you are sending her a confirmation request. and if the Email checks out you take care of sending the emails and at the end of the run send another email to tell them it was sent. Sounds too complicated. I want to send it immediately after the user presses "send", but I don't want the user to wait before he sees the confirmation message. Maybe I will just move the PHP script to the end of the file, after the tag. Will it work? Uri. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
Hi,
What you are referring to is off-line execution of PHP. I know there are
ways to do it in other web-targeted scripting languages. In PHP I'm not
aware of free implementation of this functionality. I am familiar with
commercial solution for that. Zend (which is where your truly works for)
happens to sell a server side application which does this, among the
rest. Its far from free (in any meaning), but it does just what you are
looking for... :-) . For more details check here:
http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform/what_s_new (see "Job Queues"
- first in the "new features" list).
Boaz.
Uri Even-Chen 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.
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] . '' . "\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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Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
Hi Uri,
Without entering any political fight with you here on this list (or
elsewhere) - Your script to send emails to MK from your site, WILL get
your site's mail blocked and marked as SPAM (as well as being marked
as spammer in RBL etc...)
Please note: the guys in the goverment who do monitor the mail servers
for the goverment are also subscribed to this mailing list (and no,
I'm not one of them).
Thanks,
Hetz
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.
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] . '' . "\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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Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
Quoting Uri Even-Chen, from the post of Wed, 07 Mar: > 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 What happens when spammers start using your little script? or maybe just stupid kids start sending curses "just to see if it works"? What if your user wants to send just the MKs interested in green energy or just the ones involved in fighting traffic dangers? you wrote a primitive little webform that will get your website either blocked or sued faster than you can speed-dial your lawyer. I suggest you start small - first have an Email confirmation mechanism to make sure your sender is not an anonymous spammer. then maybe have humans going over the letters before you send them out to make sure you won't shoot yourself in the foot. Then maybe sendi them just to members of specific groups or parties seperately. from my short experiance of 10 years maintaining dynamic websites, leaving an open form like this that sends mail to third parties is inviting trouble. a better idea is list all the addresses as plain text, not mailto: links even, in usefull groups. Have your users copy the bunch they want to harass to their mail program and bomb the knesset with their own account. you do NOT want to be in the middle of this when the sh*t hits the fan (and it will) > 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? You put it in a queue, tell the user you are sending her a confirmation request. and if the Email checks out you take care of sending the emails and at the end of the run send another email to tell them it was sent. -- Hong Kong action star Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
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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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.
>
>
>$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] . ''
. "\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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Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
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? PHP can also run from command line, using the /usr/bin/php CLI. So instead of running the script from the browser you can make it run from a regular shell where the running time is not much of an issue. Once you do that you can also run it from cron. Here we have a mailing list manager in PHP that works this way: 1. The site administrator composes the email in a web interface. 2. The message is inserted into a database 3. Once an hour, a PHP script is ran through cron. It selects all the new messages from the database and mails them. Uri. Sagi
Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
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.
--
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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.
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] . '' . "\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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Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:51:42PM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > I wrote a PHP program that sends E-mail to 121 E-mail addresses at > once [http://www.speedy.net/knesset/]. I'm wondering if there is another way to do this. For example, there may be a public email alias at the Knesset that does this for you. You should contact the mailroom and ask. They may have other services such as you send them one fax, they photocopy it and deliver it to a distribution list, or all of the MKs. They may accept letters (on paper) in one envelope and distribute them for you. Sending out 120 emails at once, or in very close proximity could easily get you banned due to SPAMing. I understand that you are doing this for what you see as a good purpose, but someone else might not. I'll tell you as story. In the U.S. one state legislature passed a law banning the sending of FAX SPAM. It went to the governer who had the option of signing it or vetoing it. Several direct FAX marketing associations notified their members and suggested they send him a FAX protesting it. Faxes came in from all over the U.S. and tied up his FAX machine for three days. You can guess what he did. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can a PHP script run in the background?
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.
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] . '' . "\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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