PHP can handle this (although you will definitely have to disable 
script timeout) in one run. But a smarter thing to do would be to not 
send all the 5000 emails at one time rather come up with a method 
that runs the PHP script every 5 minutes (a cron job)  and send the 
newsletter out in 200+ email batches.  This will reduce the load one 
the web server and also the mail server.

Michael



On Sunday, July 1, 2001, at 09:13 PM, Matthew Delmarter wrote:

> I at looking at using PHP to send a monthly newsletter to 5000+ 
> users who
> have subscribed via our site. The newsletter will be in HTML format for
> those who have selected this option - otherwise plain text.
>
> Can PHP handle something like this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthew Delmarter
>
>
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