[RESOLVED] PHPMailer & Attachments

essexboyracer · 05-14-2006, 12:30 PM

Hi All,

I am using PHPMailer to send out emails (one at a time, as and when type thing) in SMTP mode. The emails have a dynamic PDF attached which I dont want to keep after sending, therefore remove from the server.

Once PHPMailer has been started, do I need to wait before deleting the file? as in the example code below

Code:

// After email with PDF is mailed, need to remove the certificate from the server

sleep(4); // Delay for 4 seconds
unlink("/home/username/public_html/certificates/".$filename); // remove the PDF

// Alternative, set a cron job to unlink all certs that have a timestamp 2 hours old

bogu · 05-15-2006, 03:05 AM

When u send mass mails is always better to delay a few seconds between mails...

essexboyracer · 05-23-2006, 01:44 PM

I think i am going to set up a cron job and calculate the time diff of about 1/2 hour before deleting, I have no idea what SMTP expects in terms of queueing a mail, so just to be safe!

I wonder if I need to sleep at all, and if the mail gets submited to SMTP with attachment immediately for queuing, or does SMTP link to the attachment whilst in the queue?