php mailer

see

http://email.about.com/od/emailprogrammingtips/qt/PHP_Email_SMTP_Authentication.htm

I don't understand it.

I need to load the smtps from a file like this

$hosts = file('hosts.txt');
$info = explode(",", $line);
$host = $info[0];
$user = $info[1];
$password = $info[2];

and use this for every connection simultaneously

$smtp_port = 25;
$authtype = 'LOGIN';
$bccsize = '50'; // disconnect from the host after sending to 50 recipients
$smtp_server = '$host':
$user = '';
$password = '';

How can i make it remember what emails were sent to not resend them and then reconnect and continue?

Thanks.

I was thinking to split the recipients list to the number of hosts. If each host gets a file will it remember what emails were sent? Seems complicated.

How can i make it remember what emails were sent to not resend them and then reconnect and continue?

You can use a data base.  Make it a "log" table.  As each email is sent, add it to the log.  Whenever the script has to be restarted, SELECT the already sent emails from the log, and skip sending the email if the log contains an indicator that the message has already been sent.

The PHP mail() function in your original post will not do username and password authentication.  You would need something more complex like PHPMailer.  Here's a link to the current version: http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/wiki/PHPMailer

That's a good solution. I have one more thing to do before doing that. Here's what i have, all i have to do is make 'foreach' function work. I get this error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach().

<?php
$list = "list.txt";
$hosts = "hosts.txt";
$listcount = count(file($list));
$hostscount = count(file($hosts));
$splitnum = (int)($listcount / $hostscount);
$handle = fopen("list.txt", "r");
$currentfile = 1;
$output = FALSE;

if ($list) {
while (!feof($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
if (!$output) { 
$output = fopen("list.txt" . ($currentfile++), "w");
$lines = 0;
}
fwrite($output, $buffer);
if (strrchr($buffer,"\n")) {
$complete = TRUE;
++$lines;
if ($lines == $splitnum) {
fclose($output);
$output = FALSE;
}
} else {
$complete = FALSE;
}
}
fclose($handle);
if ($output) {
if (!$complete) {
fwrite($output,"\n");
}
fclose($output);
}
}

echo "$listcount / $hostscount = $splitnum";

$port = 25;
$bccsize = 50;
$mydomain = "mydomain.com"; 

$fromemail = "";
$fromname = "";
$replyto = "";
$subject = "";
$message = "";

foreach ($hosts as $line) {

$info = explode(",", $line);
$hostname = $info[0];
$username = $info[1];
$password = $info[2];
$lists = fopen("list.txt" . ($currentfile++), "r");

foreach ($lists as $line) {

$info = explode(",", $line);
$email = $info[0];
$firstname = $info[1];
$lastnameraw = $info[2];
$lastname = str_replace("\r\n","",$lastnameraw);
$fullname = "$firstname $lastname";

}

$connect = fsockopen($hostname,$port); 
fputs($connect, "EHLO $mydomain\r\n"); 
fputs($connect, "AUTH LOGIN\r\n"); 
fputs($connect, base64_encode($username)."\r\n"); 
fputs($connect, base64_encode($password)."\r\n"); 

fputs($connect, "FROM:$fromname <$fromemail>\r\nReply-To: $replyto\r\n");
fputs($connect, "RCPT TO:$fullname <$email>\r\n"); 
fputs($connect, "DATA\r\n"); 
fputs($connect, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n");
fputs($connect, "Content-Type: text/html\r\n");
fputs($connect, "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n");
fputs($connect, "To: $recipient\n"); 
fputs($connect, "Subject: $subject\n\n"); 
fputs($connect, "$message\r\n"); 
fputs($connect, ".\r\n"); 
fputs($connect, "QUIT\r\n");

}
?>

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what do i have to do?

Your first 'foreach' is:

foreach ($hosts as $line)

Trouble is,  $host is nothing more than the filename.  Nowhere do you read that file into a variable that I can see.  While you supposedly read it on line 5, all you actually store is the count, not the file contents.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

Would you please write it?