You definitely don't want to send more than a couple emails in a loop using the default EmailComponent. I suppose you could write a shell that would sleep between batches.
I've been sending 3000+ emails using SwiftMailer[1]. There's a SwiftMailerComponent at the Bakery (I had to modify it quite a bit, though). [1] http://swiftmailer.org/ On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:32 PM, BrendonKoz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm about to use the EmailComponent to do some very small-scale "mass" > mailing (65 at the moment). However, I am still curious how some of > you have implemented your usage of the EmailComponent when sending out > massive amounts of emails to your lists, or perhaps all users of a > very busy site. > > Are you doing any pipelining, calling a cron job to split it up, or > are you simply hoping your server's host won't penalize you for > sending out thousands of emails at once? > > I'm just looking to hear different ways of how people are using this > in their own projects to get, not only an idea of possible best > practices, but also an idea of what might be best under different > scenarios. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
