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php.ini - sendmail queue

Anon

Hello everyone - I have a quick question as for some reason i can't get to the php.net currently!

The question is what line do I need to put in the php.ini to tell sendmail to queue. Once that line has been added do I need to restart apache?

-Thanks!!!

-Carl

toma42

you'll have to read up on sendmail for how to queue a message then modify the sendmail line in php.ini to pass the necessary parameters. You will need to restart apache after modifiying the php.ini file.

Anon

Or just plug this in:
sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail -t -fwebmaster@foo.com

-f will force sendmail to send as that user.
This domain foo.com must exist.
emails will probably have a warning if you use this method, but you won't have to muck around in sendmail. You could add 'nobody' to root group, but I'd advise against it.

Anon

What i'm tryin' to do is queue the email so my script comes back right away. How does this queue the mail messages?

Anon

Carl

Did you have any success with this? I'm having a similar problem trying to send to an email list. I want the user to be taken to another page whilst the messages are queued and sent when it's convenient. If you solved it, please let me know how.

Thanks

Hon

Anon

I've checked sendmail's man pages and if you change sendmail_path's value in php.ini to:

sendmail -t -i -ODeliveryMode=q

it should work.

the mail function should bung the emails in the queue. You should however configure sendmail to send the queue now and again.

I actually tried it and the command worked from teh command line but I couldn't get PHP to queue the emails.

But it might to the trick for you!

Hungry wrote:

Carl

Thanks

Hon

Anon

Thanks for your tip.

I ended up using a combination of php and perl in the end. The perl script sent the email and was called using this
exec("perl ~/full_path/perl_script.pl&");
The "&" turns it into a background job.