Separate queue for mail() e-mails

[netlook]

Hello,

Does anybody have idea how to force separate queue for e-mail made by PHP mail() function on the server? It would be very helpful for customers who sends newsletters etc preventing of server overload. For example, the queue would be run every 1 minute to send 10 e-mail from it?

Thanks

[PWSowner]

What about writing the script to send in batches?

[netlook]

I have over 200 clients on every server, so I can't tell everyone to write such script. I want to solve this situation on the server, not client, side.

[chirpy]

I'm not aware of any (simply) way to do that with exim. You could have a trawl of the site at www.exim.org. An alternative would be to set those domains to only queue email instead of delivering it at once. That way it will be sent in batches on the next queue run.

[netlook]

Sounds better But how to set exim to put mail() e-mails in queue, if each user can set From: header to their domain, not server hostname?

Any idea

[chirpy]

Well, exim knows nothing at all about the php mail() function. However, what you could do is have the hostname set to queue_domains which may well work for what you want. So, in the first textarea of the Exim Configuration Editor in WHM add:

queue_domains = server.hostname.com

Replacing server.hostname.com with your servers FQDN hostname. Try it and see if it does queue rather than send immediately.

[netlook]

Thanks, I will try.