Hello, On 08/14/2002 08:54 PM, Daren Cotter wrote: > I have a PHP script that queries a MySQL database, > retrieves email addresses, and sends an email to all > members of a website. > > The problem is this: the PHP script times out after > sending about 5,000 mailings, and I have to restart it > 10 times in order to mail the entire list! > > This is an ongoing problem I have had for almost a > year now. I have tried MANY things to make this work > better, which I have outlined below: > > 1) Upped the Max Excecution Time in PHP from 30 to a > ridiculously high 300 (is this a security issue?) > 2) Upped the Max amount of memory a PHP script can > have from 8mb to 16mb > 3) Running sendmail in "deferred" mode instead of > "background" mode, and processing the mail queue ever > 5 minutes instead of the default 1 hour.
Your problem is that your solution does not scale well. A much more scalable solution is to put all recipients in BCC: and just send one message. It just takes a few seconds to run that. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
