mail script problem: skips 1 in 10

[Anon]

I'm in the middle of setting up a mailing script, which uses a simple "for {}" loop to send 100 mails. If I let it send them all to my own mail account, it skips a couple of mails - let's say 10 out of a 100, so only 90 get thorugh.

Does anyone know why it skips these mails? I tried it with several scripts from other people, but with the same result. Could it be because they all have the same destination address?

thanks for any replies

[Anon]

If you have access to the administrator account or account which all mail with an incorrect address gets sent, you could try:

$mailTo = "test".$i."foo.com";

maybe you could decern a pattern if the numbers are still missing...

[sfullman]

This may sound counterintuitive, but it may be because your script is too fast. In other words, you're overtaxing the number of thread processes the mail server can handle.

I had the same problem using ASP Cdonts object for mail.

This may seem abhorrent to a purist, but it worked for me: I put my mail script into a loop that cycled through 100 or 500 times for each mail message sent. I.e. all the messages got sent but on 1/100th or so of the time slice.

You may have to set timeout (which I dont' know how to do in PHP) on your script however.

HTH.
Sam Fullman
Compass Point Media

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use sleep() or set_time_limit()
and pay attention to max_execution_time in php.ini

[Anon]

thanks everyone, I had a feeling the script might be executing too fast, especially since it doesn't have to reference a database or text file, but already has the "to:" addresses built into the code itself. I'll try putting the delaying tags in, and also check to see what happens if I use a database. I'll also try and check to see if any mails are delivered to the wrong address. Thanks for the help.