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Okay, but how do I contact you??? I need a phone number, email address, etc.

Mine:
856-582-1360
racer@soldiercity.com

My e-mail address is .
webmaster@rapidtraffic.com

pw

Hi,
I've got this little problem:
I experienced (and the PHP-manual also told me so),
that puts the filecontents to standard-output and returns the filesize.

How can i read the contents of a file directly into a string, just as you said?

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Arthur van Dam adam@cs.uu.nl
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~adam

I downloaded the source zip..and then uploaded it to my server..everything works fine except when I hit the make list..it says page cannot be found. If I type the addy in directly, I can goto that page fine. I checked to make sure the URL was right..I dunno what else to try.

The following code is sample email PHP3 script which sends only last 2 account HOTMAIL & YAHOO mail account. We couldn't receive mail on first four mail account created through our company account called netwebsol. But our company account normally recieving mails which was send through HOTMAIL or YAHOO.

Do we need to add any thing extra in MAIL() function?

please help me.



<?
$message = "New Test Sample Message";

$address1 = "rec1@netwebsol.com";
$address2 = "mail@netwebsol.com";
$address3 = "ajay@netwebsol.com";
$address4 = "rec2@netwebsol.com";
$address5 = "ajaysartape@hotmail.com";
$address6 = "christoemail@yahoo.com";

$adminaddress = "mail@netwebsol.com";


mail("TO:$address1","CarerrCELL Testing","$message","FROM:$adminaddress");
mail("TO:$address2","CarerrCELL Testing","$message","FROM:$adminaddress");
mail("TO:$address3","CarerrCELL Testing","$message","FROM:$adminaddress");
mail("TO:$address4","CarerrCELL Testing","$message","FROM:$adminaddress");
mail("TO:$address5","CarerrCELL Testing","$message","FROM:$adminaddress");
mail("TO:$address6","CarerrCELL Testing","$message","FROM:$adminaddress");

echo "mail successfully";
?>

The author warns of opening a file for simultaneous read and write and the inherent problems. While the problem of poorly designed programs may cause truncated files, his suggestion of reading the file, closing and re-opening for write has another problem... You cannot guarantee that you will not lose information when more than 1 person is updating the file at a time. Take the following scenario:
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User A - reads file into array (a,b,c)
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User B - reads file into array (a,b,c)
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User A - adds element d
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User B - adds element e
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User A - writes array (a,b,c,d) to file
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User B - writes array (a,b,c,e) to file
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Since B knew nothing about element d when it went to write the file, and the file was not locked, element d was removed during the write. In short, this is very poor programming practice. A program should modify/write only the portion of the data it is actively changing/adding. It also is in poor design from a performance standpoint.

Hi Richard Lynch,

I have a PHP3 script which does not sent mail to those who are created using POP3. but it sends to those addreess which are web based mail like YAHOO , HOTMAIL etc.... I don't understand. Please help me.

The POP3 mails Account are normally receiving mails properly. Only PHP3 script unable to send the mails.

Thanks in advance

Hi,

This PHP script is very interesting...
But I have a little problem: mail() command is unsupported by my provider !

Do you know a solution to use this script with any mail() command ?
How can we replace it ?

Thanks in advanace
Best Regards

HV

I currently use Cold Fusion 4.0 and hit it against SQL Server 7.0/NT 4.0 Workstation and SendMail/Linux box, but only send 1000 at a time. Our list might grow to 30K+ next month and am also looking for something that can handle this. Currently looking at MajorDomo .. any suggestions!?!

I just setup majordomo, but have not used it on our list of about 13K and growing users. Can majordomo handle this? I also would prefer something away from Perl.

Hello,

We're still doing it ourselves for now but I think we might go with a company called ISMax at www.ismax.com. All they do is outsourced email . . . their prices are reasonable . . . however you pay per email sent so there is an incentive to not send mail.

You can talk to Wayne Getchell wayneg@ismax.com, he is very helpful and knowledgeable.

I had this problem too. You need to set the permission of data/lists.txt to 666 and then it should work ok.

Steph

I have the mailing list manager working well with only a few modifications. My question is how would I set it up so I can send to multiple lists.
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I believe I will have to set the select options as an array, but am unsure of the best way to do this. I am also having trouble exploding the array in the sendmail.php3 file.
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Does anyone have a solution for this? I would really like to see some code examples for a solution to this question.
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Thanks in advance.

HOW TO MAKE A WEB BASED E-MAIL,
LIKE MAIL.YAHOO/HOTMAIL/MAILCITY??

THX U.

I have the script installed and running...however the header information is sent with the last email addy only! The other addresses are sent with default return address of the server not the one i specified...

Any thoughts?