PHPLover -- ...and then PHPLover said... % % Dear All, % % I would like to setup a mailing list for my company.
Then set up a mailing list. % I have a database containing email address of my clients along with other % details. That's good. % How can I send them mails ? I would highly recommend ezmlm for mailing list software. It does a fantastic job. Now if you actually mean to send customized letters you'll have to inject each one singly, which really gets time-consuming. In either case, I would avoid having php do your actual mailing; use the web interface for selecting recipients, creating your message body, and whatnot, but then hand off the actual mailing work to a separate process (and don't expect to wait until it finishes). % If i write a script containing the mail function and loop the address, I % think that might generate a script timeout error. I feel increasing the % script timeout is not a good solution. I would like to know how you manage We run a fan / marketing site for various clients (bands, video game companies, whatnot) which offer content for those interested, a vanity email address, and regular newsletters offsite to the "base" addresses. Through moderate but not insane tuning I've managed to get our mail processing down to about 120ms per message; that gives me in excess of 25k messages queued per hour, which is near our target of 60k emails within two hours (and of course some of those take longer because of timeouts and retries and such). Even so, there's obviously no way that a web browser would wait around for that kind of delay. We follow a model similar to that of another poster; our subscribers are in a database along with the massmail info and a cron job checks for queued jobs and processes them. It would be a lot easier if we could send out a general letter, but fans like it when you address them by name and so on :-/ % such situations. I feel this is a common problem but i didnt find any % solution on the net. Do I need to use any sw or are there any already % available scripts. I agree that it's a common problem. The reason you didn't find your answers was because you looked for the wrong ones :-) % % Thanks a Lot !! % Long Live PHP !! % % Thanks & Regards, % ___________________________ % PHPLover % "Göd döësn't pläy dícë." % - Älbërt Ëínstëín Is there something wrong with your vowels? HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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