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Not necessarily PHPMailer related question, but maybe interesting for other users of this fine library: In my company, my colleagues work with lots of different HTML forms which send emails after submitting them. From time to time (let's say every 5,000th email) cannot be sent, because the hoster's smpt server is unavailable. I receive the error message from the PHPMailer object, which is fine, but in such cases I'd like to save those emails (including attachments) and store them in a database, so that I can try to resend them with a cron job. Is that possible in an easy way, like "exporting a PHPMailer object to blob" or something like that? |
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No, PHPMailer doesn't have a built-in means of doing this (other than stock serialize/unserialize) so you will need to reconstruct messages. Before doing that though, I'd look into making better use of your own mail server. Mail servers are really good at retrying, far more efficient than anything you could write in PHP! |
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That's an IMAP connection that doesn't have much to do with actually sending messages, and also not something that PHPMailer does? Are you doing an upload-after-send over IMAP, like the gmail example shows? If so, that's a separate problem. |
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Oops, please excuse me, I copied a wrong log entry. :-D |
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Apart from that, I'm going to test the idea to serialize a PHPMailer object with attachments. If this works, I think I'll go with that solution as it appears to be much easier to program instead of having to re-build the object. I never tried to serialize an object, so thanks a lot for that! |
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Well, regardless, handling SMTP connection errors is exactly what mail servers do. They have fast and efficient queuing systems with exponential backoff, automatic retries, so it's always a good idea to let it deal with that for you, especially since you're required to do essentially nothing to make it happen! |
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Serialising with attachments could be tricky if the attachments are deleted between serialise and unserialise, so you may need to reattach those. |
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No, PHPMailer doesn't have a built-in means of doing this (other than stock serialize/unserialize) so you will need to reconstruct messages. Before doing that though, I'd look into making better use of your own mail server. Mail servers are really good at retrying, far more efficient than anything you could write in PHP!