Look at some sample (or just *use*) scripts like the mail class at
UpperDesign.com
You just fsockopen to your SMTP server port 25, and fread/fwrite the
interchange that is required by RFCs to "talk" nicely to SMTP.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Niklas Lampen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Richard Lynch' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 3:08 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp?
> I'm sending a huge amount of mails with php. How can I send mail directly
to
> the smtp server? Right now I'm using pipe to send each mail to sendmail.
> Works fine with about 35 000 mails, but it takes ages to run.
>
> What would be the smartest way?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 25. elokuuta 2001 3:54
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp?
>
>
> > My question - is this going to work for a few thousand emails?
>
> Depends on your server.
>
> > What
> > about 100,000?
>
> No way.
>
> > Would it be better to send the mail directly to the
> > smtp server?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Can you foresee any problems?
>
> Several. The first one is you didn't read the archives or look for
> pre-existing code to talk to SMTP directly. :-)
>
> Manuel's upperdesign.com has one, and there are plenty of others. You
could
> roll your own -- I did, so it can't be too tricky. :-)
>
> Also, at that volume, I think you're going to run into trouble just in
> talking to the all the SMTP servers. I *BELIEVE* one major speed-up can
be
> achieved by sorting the outgoing emails by their recipient's domains...
>
> You may want to research how "real" mailing list software deals with this
if
> you actually expect to hit 100K addresses.
>
> If they're all the same email, you'd be *WAY* better off just interfacing
to
> majordomo, ezmlm, SmartList, or whatever other mailing list software was
> designed to handle this.
>
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