[sentaro]

Hi all,

I tried sending mass mailing using php programming with SMTP method. I tried so many times to send to 1000 plus of members. But it always stop in half way. Sometimes it stop at 600th, sometimes 400th, sometimes 1000th, etc.. stop randomly.

I'm sending the mail using $mail->AddBCC() method. Sending every batch (50 emails / batch).
I add 50 email addresses to BCC , then I send it out. I loop it until 1000 plus email addresses.

I put all the email addresses in array first. Then, when I want to send it, I'll read from the array of email address. This proves that there's nothing wrong with the connection to database, right ?

I just suspect there's something wrong with the php connection, because when sending mass mailing, the page kept loading, never stop again until I press the Stop button. Is there's any solution to it ? I've tried to change the code logic and some setting/configuration.

These are the latest setting in my server :
Then I've set the php.ini file :
max_execution_time = 15000
max_input_time = 60


In httpd.conf, I set :
MaxKeepAliveRequests 500
KeepAliveTimeout 30
MinSpareServers 1
MaxSpareServers 1
StartServers 1

My Php version is 4.3.11
My Apache version is Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) PHP/4.3.11
My MySQL version is MySQL 3.23.56

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Its probably timing out. Can you run the script the from PHP CLI (command line) instead of a web page?
Also, your SMTP server might have a limit on outgoing mail if you're using a host or ISPs.

[brendandonhue]

Its probably timing out. Can you run the script the from PHP CLI (command line) instead of a web page?
Also, your SMTP server might have a limit on outgoing mail if you're using a host or ISPs.

[sentaro]

About limit of outgoing mail:
I think there's no problem with the limitation, because sometimes I can send 400, sometimes 600, sometimes 800. It's just like the connection sometimes connected, and sometimes not. That's why some of the batches (50 emails/batch) weren't sent out.
Like you said, it's timed out problem. I tried to set in php.ini file, but seems like it wasn't successful.

I don't know about CLI.

[KiLleR Civilian]

make sure you restart your server after you set the php.ini

[sentaro]

Yes, I did restart the server. But still couldn't work.
Is there any other setting needed to change ?