Fsock error...

[BGSWebDesign]

Hi,

I have not had this problem previously.  Trying to a mailing to a subset of my subscribers - about 7,000 I got this error message:

fsockopen(): unable to connect to mydomain:25 in /myppathtolistmail/admin.php on line 765
could not open socket with fsockopen()

Also I got an error at the bottom of the send screen that said,
Server Said:
[configuration]

With a  button, when I clicked on the button the error above
showed up.

What's going on here?   Any ideas on how to fix it?

Thank you,
-Brett

[DW]

It's possible your web host's email server stopped answering temporarily.  Is it still happening?

[alan]

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to mydomain.com:25 (Connection refused) in /home/virtual/site#/fst/var/www/html/mail/admin.php on line 1424
Connect to server mydomain.com:25 failed.

Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/virtual/site#/fst/var/www/html/mail/admin.php on line 1596

Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/virtual/site#/fst/var/www/html/mail/admin.php on line 1600

Warning: fgets(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/virtual/site#/fst/var/www/html/mail/admin.php on line 1602

Sending error. Check your mail settings.



This is happening quite regularly when sending emails out. I have to resume every 1000-7000 or so emails.

[DW]

This could happen if your host has reached the SMTP connection limit in the middle of your email, when ListMail tries to reconnect.

Try setting your "Reconnect every X emails" SMTP option to a higher setting.

Regards

[alan]

Seems that did the trick, I tried everything else including lowering that number thinking it was timing out.

 But when I raised the reconnect every X to 5,000 it seemed to go through the list without a hitch.

sorry I didn't post my possible solution here sooner.