Re[2]: [PHP] Sending e-mail via socket

Hello Rene,

Can't do that since the message is personalized: I need to put in the
user name ("Hello $username") and some other data, so the BCC is not a
solution, unfortunately...
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----- Original message -----
From: Rene Veerman <[email protected]>
To: Andre Polykanine <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 2:58:41 AM
Subject: [PHP] Sending e-mail via socket

have you tried mail() with a large bcc header?

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Andre Polykanine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I've just subscribed to the list, and I already have a question.
> what I need to do is to send mail using sockets. Actually, the
> built-in Mail() function is great and I wouldn't have to search for
> something else if I didn't need more than one message to be sent at a
> time. Say, I have ten or a hundred of users who want to receive a
> notification about new blog entries. If I use the mail() function in
> the loop, it will be performed too slow since it constantly opens and
> closes the door, I mean, the SMTP connection.
> So I need an alternative.
> And here's what I'm doing:
>
> <?
> function socketmail($to, $subject, $message) {
> $from="Oire.org Administration <[email protected]>";
>    $connect = fsockopen ("smtp.yandex.ru", 25, $errno, $errstr, 30);
> if ($connect) {
> $out="HELO localhost\r\n";
> $out.="MAIL FROM: $from\n";
> $out.="RCPT TO: $to\n";
> $out.="DATA\r\n";
> $out.="Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n";
> $out.="To: $to\n";
> $out.="Subject: $subject\n";
> $out.="\n\n";
> $out.=$message." \r\n";
> $out.=".\r\n";
> $out.="RSET\r\n";
> fwrite ($connect, $out);
> fclose ($connect);
> } else {
> die ("Error: ".$errstr." ($errno)");
> }
> }
>
> socketmail ("[email protected]", "this is a socket mail test",
> "Testing mail sending");
> ?>
>
> And what I get is absolutely nothing. No errors, no warnings, no
> message in the mailbox.
> So three questions:
> 1. What's wrong with my script?
> 2. How to look where the error exactly is? Can't get server logs for
> some reason (will talk to tech support probably).
> 3. How to do the same thing but with an ability to send multiple
> messages without closing the connection after each message?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Andre
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