[thelist] PHP Mail() function
Paul Waring
paul at xk7.net
Fri May 30 06:19:37 CDT 2014
It's highly unlikely that the limit will show in phpinfo(), since
there's no built-in functionality for limiting mail in PHP that I'm
aware of (except disabling the mail() function altogether). If there is
a limit, it will probably be set somewhere in the mail server software
configuration.
Paul
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:51:11PM +1200, Santilal Parbhu wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for that. Is there any way to see this limit using phpinfo() or any
> other way. I have asked the server host, but they have not offered any
> possible explanation. I probably sent about 20 emails over a half hour
> period before it stopped working. Hardly what I would call excessive, but
> maybe there is some limitation if the emails are coming from a script. It
> has been about 4 hours and I am still not able to send emails from the
> script.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Santilal
>
>
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> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 05:15:05PM +1200, Santilal Parbhu wrote:
> > I am using the PHP mail() function to send emails from a hosted server.
> > Typically values are read from a mysql table and put into an email
> > when requested by a user. Periodically some users have reported that
> > the email doesn't get sent. I have investigated and could not find
> > any reason. The host provider also could not help. Just today I was
> > changing the formatting of the email message. To test the formatting I
> sent test emails to myself.
> > After about an hour or so, the emails just stopped. This was not
> > related to any code change because I was only changing the structure
> > of the body of the message. The thought then occurred to me that
> > perhaps there is a server setting that limits how many emails can be sent
> in a certain period of time.
> > Does anyone know if this is possible?
>
> It's certainly possible for servers to limit outgoing messages in a given
> time period, either by number of recipients or number of messages, or a
> combination of the two.
>
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