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[Gary Mort]

It's not your code, it's the underlying email system.

Most likely, hotmail is greylisting your domain, so it has to wait until 
the retry occurs to deliver it.

chad qian wrote:
> Hi,
> When people register,they will have their own username and password.In 
> order to active their account,they have to go to their email acct to 
> click the link to active pages.
> Here is my source code:
> // send a message to the user's email account with a verification link
>         $subject = 'BarterJunk.com account activation for ' . $username;
>    
>         // header of the verification email message
>         $header  = 'From: AccountActivation at barterjunk.com' . "\r\n" .
>                    'Reply-To: webmaster at barterjunk.com' . "\r\n" .
>                    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . _phpversion_ 
> <http://www.php.net/phpversion>();
>    
>         // text of the verification email message
>         $verification_message =
>         "{$username},\n\n" .
>         "Please visit the link below to activate your new 
> BarterJunk.com account.\n\n" .
>         "http://www.barterjunk.com/?activation_code=" . 
> $user_data['activation_hash'] . "\n";
>    
>         // send the message
>         _mail_ <http://www.php.net/mail>( $email, $subject, 
> $verification_message, $header );
>  
> It works,but it takes very long time.After people submit all their 
> information,they will get verification email after 20-30 minutes.I use 
> hotmail to test
>  
> Any better solution?
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> chad
>
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