Mail limitation ?

[pullaratt]

Is any limitation to send more mails using mail() function in php. I can’t send more than 5 mails. i am using apchae . php 4.3.
Thanks in advance.

[kburger]

No limitation, per se. But your script may be timing out. For larger volumes of mail the manual suggests using PEAR::Mail. From the manual:

Note: It is worth noting that the mail() function is not suitable for larger volumes of email in a loop. This function opens and closes an SMTP socket for each email, which is not very efficient.

For the sending of large amounts of email, see the PEAR::Mail, and PEAR::Mail_Queue packages.

[pullaratt]

Thanks kburger.

i tried to use phpmailer to solve this issue.  when i am using mail() function of phpmailer it fail to send more than 5 at a time. so i tried sendmail() function of phpmailer . when executing it is telling that all mails are send. but only five is reaching in mailbox. 

the code given below

<? 
	require("class.phpmailer.php");
	$mail = new PHPMailer();
	$mail->IsSendmail(); // send mail;
	$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
	$mail->FromName= "From Name";  

	$email="[e-mail]";
	$mail->AddAddress($email);
	for($i=0;$i<3;$i++)
	{
		$mail->Subject = "sendmail : example";
		$mail->Body = "hi ! \n\n this is First mailing I made myself from sendmail  ";
		$mail->WordWrap = 50;
		if(!$mail->Send())
		{
		   echo "<br>Message was not sent";
		   echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;	
		}
		else
		{
		   echo " Message has been sent to :$email <br/>";
		}
	}
	$mail->ClearAddresses();
	$email="[e-mail]";
	$mail->AddAddress($email);
	$mail->Priority=1;

for($i=0;$i<5;$i++)
{
	$mail->Subject = "sendmail : example";
	$mail->Body = "hi ! \n\n this is First mailing I made myself from sendmail ";
	$mail->WordWrap = 50;
	if(!$mail->Send())
	{
	   echo "<br>Message was not sent";
	   echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;	
	}
	else
	{
	   echo " Message has been sent to :$email <br/>";
	}
}

?>