Hi, Saturday, September 3, 2005, 9:19:11 AM, you wrote: MS> hello, MS> I'm writing a socket approach to send email directly via an SMTP server MS> (since some hosts block sendmail trough php due to abuse). Now, I have MS> the code, attached below: MS> I have cut it down slightly so it would still be readable though. I'm MS> very sure that none of the stuff I removed actually matters in the MS> problem though (mostly error chechking, logging, debug stuff, etc). MS> Ok, back to the problem. If I reread my log, I see the following "output": MS> S: 220 server -- Server ESMTP (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2) MS> C: HELO ip MS> S: MS> C: MAIL FROM: <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> MS> S: 250 server OK, server2 [ip]. MS> C: RCPT TO: <you@xxxxxxxxxxx> MS> S: MS> C: RSET MS> Now, obviously, the server sends something back (I checked, manually, MS> using telnet). So, I figured that the socket_read(socket, size, MS> PHP_NORMAL_READ) was causing the problem. So I switched over to MS> PHP_BINARY_READ to make sure I didn't miss anything (because it broke MS> off eg. midways). So... after I changed that, I suddenly started getting MS> these errors: MS> Warning: socket_read() unable to read from socket [11]: Resource MS> temporarily unavailable in /home/me/scripts/mail.php on line 27 MS> This goes for each attempt to read (even the first). I'm stumped... and MS> really don't know how to proceed now... MS> Does anyone have any clues? MS> very appreciated, Because of this line the function returns straight away. MS> socket_set_nonblock($this->socket); You have to catch the 'not ready' error something like this: (The error code was under windows) function get(){ $ret = ''; while(1){ $sbuf = @socket_read($this->connection, 1024, PHP_BINARY_READ); if(false === $sbuf){ $error = socket_last_error($this->connection); if($error != 10035){ echo "msgsock read() failed: reason: " .$error.' '. socket_strerror (socket_last_error($this->connection)) . "\n"; return;//socket not happy } }else{ $buf_read = strlen($sbuf); if($buf_read === 0) break; // end of text $ret .= $sbuf; } } return $ret; } -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php