Richard Heyes wrote:
>
> > We regularly use PHP to send messages to a 100,000+ member
> > mailing list. No
> > problem. I did insert some periodic pauses to give the mail
> > server some
> > breathing room. :)
>
> Are you using the mail() function for this? Or talking direct to an smtp
> server?
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We do this with mail() now and then.
The caution about doing "periodic pauses" may be important.
A few years ago I crashed a mail server by doing a mass email
with no sleep() embedded.
However, FWIW, not more than a month or so ago, just for the heck of
it, for a message that went to "only" about 2500, I took sleep()
out. I don't know what sendmail woes on our mail server running
Linux 6.2, but it did things gracefully, queued things up somehow,
and didn't choke. I have no idea what our mail server would do
with 100,000, though...
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Justin Farnsworth
Eye Integrated Communications
321 South Evans - Suite 203
Greenville, NC 27858 | Tel: (252) 353-0722
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