newsletter emailing

slimjim

I am using mail() to send email to newsletter subscribers, but in my browser after I hit send, it says it can not find server..
I think it is timing out or something.
Is there a way to use mail() to send email out to over 500 people with out timing out.

Any example would be great...

slimjim

I am getting emails from database with $email as the variable in case that helps with an example

slimjim

Ok Here is what I have so far :

$query = "SELECT email FROM letter where state='1'";
$adminEmail=getSetting("adm_mail");
$get_results = mysql_query($query);
if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($get_results)) {
do {
		   sendHTMLmail($adminEmail,$row[email],$title,$message);

flush();		   

$timeout=300;		   

      } 
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($get_results)); }
		$msg="Mailing Was A Success";

}

Which still times out the browser, but if I do this :

$query = "SELECT email FROM letter where state='1'";
$adminEmail=getSetting("adm_mail");
$get_results = mysql_query($query);
if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($get_results)) {
do {
		   sendHTMLmail($adminEmail,$row[email],$title,$message);
 print $email . "".$row[email]." sent<br>"; 
flush();		   

$timeout=300;		   

      } 
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($get_results)); }
		$msg="Mailing Was A Success";

}

Which all I added was this :
print $email . "".$row[email]." sent<br>";
It seems not to time out, but I have that printing and I dont want it to print that..

Someone out there must have a solution for me other then something really hard.

Maybe a mailer that is easy to configure or something, cause I have tried everything and been on so many post.
OR somehow put it in batches or something...

So please if you have a script or good example would be great..

dalecosp

Have you looked at the max_execution_time directive?

slimjim

my max_execution_time in php is already set at 60

dalecosp

Sixty seconds is probably not long enough to send 500 mails with the mail() function. Perhaps if you write some socket magic ....

slimjim

I actually want it so that the minute I hit the sumit button, it says it is sending emails, but no luck there either

Drakla

To get output to the browser while leaving your script running use something like this. This example you just pass it the name of a function to run that takes no parameters, that outputs a success or fail message. Don't output anything else in the script, though, or modify it to buffer everything before you close the connection

/**
*	Shows content and halts browser (SHOULD)
*
*	@param string name of function to run
*/

function output_n_close($func)
{
	ob_start();			// ALL content must be captured so the length can be passed on

$func();

header('Connection: close');
header("Content-length: " . ob_get_length());

ob_end_flush();		// fly my pretties!
flush();			// browser should now stop rolling
}

After you run that function keep running other stuff as normal. You might want to look into [man]ignore_user_abort[/man] too.

And you will need quite a long time to send stacks of emails, set it for a few hours.