Author Topic: This may help someone - WARNING for PHP < 4.3.0 (Read 3810 times)

mike2 · « **on:** July 21, 2006, 08:12:30 am »

I just wanted to post a quick note/warning about upgrading past V1.85 if you have an older version of PHP ( < 4.3.0 ).

I went straight to 1.87 from 1.85, so I'm not sure if this applies to going from 1.85 to 1.86 or not.

Because of the "stream_set_timeout" command added, your version of PHP must be 4.3.0 or greater or you'll find yourself not being able to send an email. Everything else will work ok, but you can't email.

I found myself upgrading my whole box from Redhat 9 to Fedora Core because of this. Needless to say it took some time. I could have just built a new version of PHP, but with the way the box was setup it was just as easy to upgrade it all. Either way it will take some time.

My reason for this post is two fold. 1) I hope it may help someone else who upgrades to be able to plan ahead first and be ready. Or at least check to make sure their PHP version is past 4.3.0.

And maybe more importantly, 2) Dean, I don't know how feasible this is, but when you add commands like that and see that is requires a certain version of PHP or whatever, maybe you could add a quick note to the changes file or something. This way we can do a quick check first and not be taken by suprise.

BGSWebDesign · « **Reply #1 on:** July 21, 2006, 11:20:23 am »

Hi Mike,

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I went straight to 1.87 from 1.85

Just wondering, since you do large mailings, did that 'stream command' affect the speed of your mailings at all? What about the number of 'bounces', or even the number of clicks/people that it got delivered to?

mike2 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2006, 07:46:05 am »

Here's what I noticed:

The Speed wasn't affected, when I came back and it was done, the speed was right around 53,000 something per hour.

The bounces were about the same as normal.

The clicks were a touch low, but this was a Friday and I didn't really like the customers ad, so I believe this was the only factors. I'll keep an eye on next weeks emails.

BGSWebDesign · « **Reply #3 on:** July 23, 2006, 01:06:27 pm »

Hi Mike,

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The clicks were a touch low, but this was a Friday and I didn't really like the customers ad,

Thanks, please keep us posted in this thread with what you find, I was not able to get normal number of clicks unless I throttle the mailing speed, but then I'm running on a shared server, and not dedicated...

Just wonder what you find?

mike2 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 25, 2006, 09:50:31 am »

Just a quick update: Sundays Ad that I ran (which was one I wrote and thought looked pretty good) got a good amount of clicks, so all seems normal and dandy!

Brett, I really believe your problem had/has to do with being on a shared server... probably overloaded or just restricted.

DW · « **Reply #5 on:** November 30, 2006, 10:47:57 am »

I finally fixed this in the currently available update:
http://listmailpro.com/forum/index.php?topic=1597.msg6557#msg6557