Server Mail Queue Handling Checking for Stalls and Optimising

[paul133]

Hi.

 

I am sending out email with a php script - about 5000 at a time by send 15 or so every 20 seconds which works fine.

Sometimes I need to add an attachemnt. I then find that the script will keep stalling.

 

Is there a way to test the server qmail/mail queue to see if it isready to send another message? - rather than send it and have the script stall?

 

It may be enough to simply be able to check that the number of messages left to be sent in the queue?

 

Have search a lot for help on this with no results. Any server/qmail experts out there?

 

Thanks

 

Paul