231162 phplist 2006 error won't send

current programmer cannot find problem. Need this fixed ASAP. Like many (if not most) open source developers, I use Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager, for all of my newsletter requirements. Recently, however, I began playing with a different one-way announcement-type newsletter mailer. It's called PHPlist, and as you might guess, in contrast to Mailman, it's not Python powered. Beyond the language difference, it adds a number of useful default features, including email from RSS feeds and sophisticated user management that really extends the power of an announcement-based mailing list. PHPlist is licensed under the GPL, and runs well on a typical LAMP setup of Linux, Apache Web server (1.3.x or 2.x), PHP version 4.3.x, and MySQL database server (version 3.23 or up). You can get the most recent version from the PHPlist site. For the purpose of this review I'm using version 2.8.11 stable, released August 5. Installation Installation of PHPlist is relatively straightforward -- unpack the archive, set up a database, and then start plowing through the [login to view URL] file to adjust settings to your environment. It's then a simple matter of opening the graphical administration screen in your browser and going through the long list of setup options to further customize PHPlist to your needs. A word of caution here -- PHPlist's documentation is woefully inadequate and is spread across multiple readme files and hidden inside comment fields in config files. Not too worry too much though; the config file is well-commented and the only significant non-default setting that I found that really needed to be changed (beyond the obvious directory/path and database user/password stuff) was a flag that enables PHPlist's RSS features. The project calls these features experimental, though in practice they seem to be quite stable. The main screen can be overwhelming, as it includes a long list of items that you can control and configure, including System Functions, Configuration, List, User, Message, and RSS functions, but it's pretty straightforward and for the most part self-explanatory. The first item, Setup Functions, is an essential step that's not the same stuff that you edit in [login to view URL], but rather the more granular everyday stuff like setting up an administrator password, subscribe and unsubscribe page messages, and links. The program bills the setup function as essentially a quick checklist of things to set up in order to get PHPlist working correctly. It sure would have been easier if there was just one setup that you needed to do in the GUI rather than having to both use the GUI and directly edit the config file. Usage Once the program is configured, using PHPlist is a simple matter of creating, customizing and managing your lists. The standard Web-based subscription and unsubscription features you'd expect are all there, plus a few interesting additions. With custom attributes fields you can do more than just capture an email address; you can also add in additional fields (i.e. geography, interests, age, etc.) to better understand and categorize your subscribers. When it comes time to mail your message, you can use those same attributes to decide who gets what message. In addition to the run-of-the-mill user reconciliation features, PHPlist also allows an admin to reconcile users such that if you're cross-posting the same message to multiple lists, the same user won't get the same message twice. I've found this to be an incredibly useful feature, seeing as no one really wants to be hit with the same message twice -- that sort of borders on spam, doesn't it? With the help of the free PDF library, PHPlist can also generate PDFs on the fly to be included as attachments for your mailing. (How many end users really like accepting attachments from a mailing list is another question.) RSS that's some info if you are not familiar. Error is that script gets hung up/stalled and will not send emails. current programmer fixed (turned off?) error "2006 mysql db has gone away" Process is still stalled and will not send. This project is for the script phplist to work on my shared hosting linux server If you are not familiar with phplist - DO NOT BID