Well, try it - find a willing victim and just do a simple loop.
Alternately, set up an account with a local, high-bandwidth ISP, batch in
groups of 330-, and use BCC.
Miles
At 04:16 PM 9/6/01 -0700, Fotwun wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I need to send a broadcast email to our customers (about 3,000 emails). The
>data is being drawn for the DB, and will be personalized. Obviously, the
>code to do this is only a few lines. However, I am concerned with the load
>it will put on the system trying to loop through and mail() 3,000+ times.
>Because of the overhead I anticipate this will cause the server, I am
>planning to do it late in the evening.
>
>My concern is this... will such a loop calling mail() cause PHP/Apache/the
>box/etc to crash under normal circumstances? We have a pretty beefy box, I
>just have never tried broadcasting through PHP. Also, if there is any
>reasonable chance for such a failure, is it possible to put timed pauses in,
>say half a second or so before it continues the loop. I've never heard of
>inserting pauses into the execution of PHP code, not sure if its possible.
>If it were, I would think this could combat some of the load, and prevent
>the bottleneck from building backlog until failure.
>
>Who knows, maybe this type of routine won't even make my box flinch (P3-833,
>FreeBSD, 256 megs), that's why I'm asking ahead of time. I'd hate to see a
>crash, mainly because I'll have no idea where it left off, and will end up
>sending 2 or more emails to some people if I have to run it more than once.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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