What causes this to happen

[Mutley]

I get a message on a script (The email dispatch program is currently busy. It should be free again in a few moments.), I don't know why, I narrowed it down to this part of code:

 

    
<?php
$ml_body = "ml_body";
    $ml_head = "ml_head";
    $ml_list = "ml_list";

        if (file_exists("./$ml_head")){
            echo "<p>";
            echo ema_tag("em", "The email dispatch program is currently busy.
							It should be free again in a few moments.");
            echo "</p>";
            return;
        }
?>

 

Inside "ml_head" is this:

 

From: Membership Newsletters <members@mysite.co.uk>

Reply-To: Membership Newsletters <members@mysite.co.uk>

X-Mailer: PHP/4.4.3

 

Yes, the e-mails are setup correctly. Any ideas? Or ways to bypass it?

[Psycho]

It looks as if that script creates a temporary file that should get cleared out. Try renaming that file and try again. On the 2nd test if you get the same error, the part of the script that removes that file is not working.