Jax2 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Hi everyone. I'm trying to help a client set up an email cronjob to send out emails telling his employees they need to contact a certain company each day, depending on the contact date. I wrote my script, tested it the first time and found out I had an error, and for each of the 18 contacts that had to be sent out today, I sent 18 of them... for a total of 324 emails. Oops. I corrected the error and tried it again and this time it sent me all 18 contacts just as it should. I tried it a third time and now it won't send anything at all, or at least, I'm not getting anything. I have tried removing the mail() function and simply echoing each thing onto the page, and I'm getting all the correct data ... (As in, $to, $subject, $body, $headers) ... they show up perfect, but if I try and mail them again, no emails are being sent. Here is the script. Some fast help would be appreciated! <?php include("includes/db.php"); $today=date('Y-m-d'); $from="[email protected]"; $to="[email protected]"; $subject="Contact call backs for ".$today.""; $headers = 'From: '.$from.'' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: '.$from.'' . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); $sql="SELECT * FROM prospects WHERE contact_next='$today'"; $result=mysql_query($sql, $db); $total=mysql_num_rows($result); if ($total<1) { die(); } ELSE { while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $body=" ".$row['representative'].",\r\n The following company is scheduled for a call-back today, ".$today.".\r\n Company: ".$row['company_name']."\r\n Name: ".$row['firstname']." ".$row['lastname']."\r\n Address: ".$row['address']."\r\n City: ".$row['city'].", ".$row['province']."\r\n Phone: ".$row['phone']."\r\n Email: ".$row['email'].""; mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers); } } ?> Again, if I remove mail( and simply echo $to, $subject, $body, $headers, they all show up as correct. So, they SHOULD be getting sent out. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198035-server-sent-emails-now-it-will-not-nothing-changed-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
the182guy Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Have you tried a different email address to send to? These days spam filters can be very strict. By doing that you can rule out a problem with the receiving email provider. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198035-server-sent-emails-now-it-will-not-nothing-changed-help/#findComment-1039130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax2 Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 I have changed the $to email address to 3 different ones now, nothing helps. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198035-server-sent-emails-now-it-will-not-nothing-changed-help/#findComment-1039131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the182guy Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Is the script running on your own computer, or is it a webhost, or dedicated server? The reason I ask is because the webhost could have changed the PHP mail settings, or even blocked your account from sending mail due to the 300+ in one go error. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198035-server-sent-emails-now-it-will-not-nothing-changed-help/#findComment-1039137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax2 Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 I found the problem ... apparently dreamhost, in their infinite wisdom, deemed it necessary to prevent anyone from sending out more than 100 emails in an hour. Therefore, the first 324 I tried to send threw me over the hourly limit, and even though I was only trying to send 18 each time after, I was already suspended for the hour. What a pile of junk. Hope I never need to send out newsletters to more than 100 people at a time :/ Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198035-server-sent-emails-now-it-will-not-nothing-changed-help/#findComment-1039139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax2 Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 Is the script running on your own computer, or is it a webhost, or dedicated server? The reason I ask is because the webhost could have changed the PHP mail settings, or even blocked your account from sending mail due to the 300+ in one go error. You were right, of course. Thanks! If I hadn't contacted my host to bitch at them already, that would have helped a lot Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198035-server-sent-emails-now-it-will-not-nothing-changed-help/#findComment-1039141 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the182guy Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Is the script running on your own computer, or is it a webhost, or dedicated server? The reason I ask is because the webhost could have changed the PHP mail settings, or even blocked your account from sending mail due to the 300+ in one go error. You were right, of course. Thanks! If I hadn't contacted my host to bitch at them already, that would have helped a lot Nice one, glad you solved it. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198035-server-sent-emails-now-it-will-not-nothing-changed-help/#findComment-1039146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhpScripts Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 I'm glad you solved it! I had the issue awhile back I started a directory on a site which automatically sent out email once the links were approved. I didn't check with my host and after I accepted 500 links at one time my host closed my account for violation of policies. :'( Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198035-server-sent-emails-now-it-will-not-nothing-changed-help/#findComment-1039149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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