[RESOLVED] help with sendmail

[blckspder]

I have a send mail function I am using for newsletters it keeps saying it has timed out at 30 seconds but I increased the time out variable to 60 seconds and tried again. It again gave me an error for a 30 second time out but on a line further down in the code. So I went back and increased the time out to 90 seconds and it gave me the error again with the 30 second time out.. but this time the error stated a line even further down the code
Here is my code I commented the lines the errors happened at at each change of the time out variable.

Here is the send mail function:

function authSendEmail($from, $to, $subject, $body)
{
    //SMTP + SERVER DETAILS
    /* * * * CONFIGURATION START * * * */
	include("../includes/email_config.php");
    /* * * * CONFIGURATION END * * * * */

//Connect to the host on the specified port
$smtpConnect = fsockopen($smtpServer, $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout);
/*** this is where the first error occured: for the line below: increased to 60 secs ***/
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
if(empty($smtpConnect)) 
{
    $output = "Failed to connect: $smtpResponse";
    return $output;
}
else
{
    $logArray['connection'] = "Connected: $smtpResponse";
}

//Request Auth Login
fputs($smtpConnect,"AUTH LOGIN" . $newLine);
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
$logArray['authrequest'] = "$smtpResponse";

//Send username
fputs($smtpConnect, base64_encode($username) . $newLine);
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
$logArray['authusername'] = "$smtpResponse";

//Send password
fputs($smtpConnect, base64_encode($password) . $newLine);
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
$logArray['authpassword'] = "$smtpResponse";

//Say Hello to SMTP
fputs($smtpConnect, "HELO $localhost" . $newLine);
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
$logArray['heloresponse'] = "$smtpResponse";

//Email From
fputs($smtpConnect, "MAIL FROM: $from" . $newLine);
/** the line below is where the second timeout error occured: increased to 90 secs **/
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
$logArray['mailfromresponse'] = "$smtpResponse";

//Email To
fputs($smtpConnect, "RCPT TO: $to" . $newLine);
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
$logArray['mailtoresponse'] = "$smtpResponse";

//The Email
fputs($smtpConnect, "DATA" . $newLine);
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
$logArray['data1response'] = "$smtpResponse";

//Construct Headers
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . $newLine;
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . $newLine;
//$headers .= "To: <$to>" . $newLine;
//$headers .= "From: <$from>" . $newLine;

fputs($smtpConnect, "To: $to\nFrom: $from\nSubject: $subject\n$headers\n\n$body\n.\n");
/*** the line below is the third error **/
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
$logArray['data2response'] = "$smtpResponse";

// Say Bye to SMTP
fputs($smtpConnect,"QUIT" . $newLine); 
$smtpResponse = fgets($smtpConnect, 515);
$logArray['quitresponse'] = "$smtpResponse"; 

}

Here is the configuration file code:

    $smtpServer = "******";
    $port = "25";
    $timeout = "90";
    $username = "*******";
    $password = "*****";
    $localhost = "localhost";
    $newLine = "\r\n";

Let me know thanks.

[sid]

are you sure that its not the max. execution time limit that gets you?
see [man]ini_set/man and http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.php

[blckspder]

ok I took a look at ini_set, thanks for the help.

So should I put in something like this?

ini_set(max_execution_time, 90);

so my function would look something like this?

function authSendEmail($from, $to, $subject, $body)
{
    //SMTP + SERVER DETAILS
    /* * * * CONFIGURATION START * * * */
    include("../includes/email_config.php");
    /* * * * CONFIGURATION END * * * * */ 

  ini_set(max_execution_time, 90);

I have never used the ini_set before and they give some cool examples. Im just a little confused on how to implement it in my code

let me know if I am on the right path. thanks for your help again.

[sid]

i personally would just call it at the beginning of the code. i am not sure, if it even lets you call [man]ini_set/man once the first data has been sent (i assume its behavior is similar to [man]header/man or [man]session_start/man, in that it can only be called before sending content to the client).

i.e.:

<?php
ini_set(max_execution_time, 90);

//some stuff here

authSendEmail($foo, $bar, $foobar, $barfoo);

//some stuff here

function authSendEmail($from, $to, $subject, $body) {
    //function implemented here
}

?>

[blckspder]

alright cool. Thanks for your help I will implement this asap.

[madwormer2]

Why not just use set_time_limit(90) ?