Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 11/14/05 21:35

On Fri, November 11, 2005 9:33 pm, Bruce Gilbert wrote:
> $headers = "From: $sender";
> $headers .= "Reply-To: $reply_to";
> $headers .= "Return-Path: $return_path";

> $headers .= "X-Sender: $x_sender";
> $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n"; //mailer

These two may trip some spam filters.

> $headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n"; //1 UrgentMessage, 3 Normal

Setting this at all probably trips a few spam filters.

> $headers .= "Mime-Version:1.0\n Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=\"iso-8859-1\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
>
> mail( $recipient, $subject, stripslashes($message), $headers );

Check the return error code!!!
http://php.net/mail

> sleep(1);

Just how many emails are you trying to send with mail()?

http://php.net/mail was never designed for heavy-volume lists...

Look into http://phpclasses.org for something that WAS designed to
handle the volume you need.

> }
>
> // run second query to automatically dump unsubscribed email
> addresses.


> $query2 = "
> DELETE FROM
> mailinglist
> WHERE
> subscribe='0'
> AND
> confirmed='0' ";
>
> //run the query
> mysql_query($query2, $link) or die (mysql_error());

Dude, if I unsubscribed, get me off the list *BEFORE* you send out
another email, not after.

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