when sending a newsletter with phpList on a server running PHP-cgi instead of PHP-cli.
Depending on whether you have a daily limit on your emails or not , you can have the following feature
enabled or disabled :
This is inside the ../lists/config/config.php
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Two primary settings work together to say: Send no more than N emails every T minutes.
Where:
N is MAILQUEUE_BATCH_SIZE
T is MAILQUEUE_BATCH_PERIOD
These settings force phpList to "pace itself".
The last setting, MAILQUEUE_THROTTLE, will space messages apart by some number of seconds.
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More detailed information on this could be found in numerous posts on this forum.
In my case the "batch processing" is disabled - define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_SIZE",0);
The method is using the commandline script called "phplist".
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1.Changes for ../lists/config/config.php
- You will need to identify the users who are allowed to run the script, so change this :
$commandline_users = array("username");
define ("MANUALLY_PROCESS_QUEUE",1);
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2. Go to the ../lists/admin/
The following actions are required in order to be able to run the ../lists/admin/index.php in a browser
and in the same time have it executable via the commandline.
Make a copy of the index.php file and call it index2.php
Choose to edit the index2.php and find these lines :
A)Line 6:
Original: if (!isset($_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]) && !PHP_SAPI == "cli") {
Replace with: if (!isset($_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]) && !PHP_SAPI == "cgi") {
B) Line 23:
Original: if (php_sapi_name() == "cli") {
Replace with: if (php_sapi_name() == "cgi") {
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3. You will have to configure the commandline script "phplist" now.
A sample of it is located at ../domain.com/phpList/bin/
The file is called "phplist" - make sure it is with 755 permissions.
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#!/bin/bash
# script to run PHPlist from commandline. You may need to edit this to make it work
# with your shell environment. The following should work for Bash on Fedora Linux
# but this may vary strongly in other situations. You will need to dig into the
# code to make sure it works for you.
# in commandline mode, access is restricted to users who are listed in the config file
# check README.commandline for more info
# identify the config file for your installation
CONFIG=/home/www/domain.com/phpList/public_html/lists/config/config.php
export CONFIG
# alternatively you can use -c <path> on the commandline
# run the PHPlist index file with all parameters passed to this script
/usr/local/bin/php /home/www/domain.com/phpList/public_html/lists/admin/index2.php $*
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Save the file and we are almost there.
Now you can load up you mailing queue from the phpList admin panel.
Once this is done , you are ready to run the following commands via the commandline :
Process the message queue :
username@domain.com:~/www/domain.com/phpList/bin$ ./phplist -pprocessqueue
Process bounces :
username@domain.com:~/www/domain.com/phpList/bin$ ./phplist -pprocessbounces
The next thing you can do is just sit back and relax
Happy mailing!
