From: "Miles Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> 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.

Or load and install qmail. Set the number of outgoing queues to a reasoable
number (maybe 50 or so) and let loose. You'll never have more than "queue"
connections simultaneously. Keeps the load reasonable.
Mark C.


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