Mohanaraj wrote:
What would be the best way to handle this ?
Go get a program that's made to send out emails like this. Odds are
it'll be faster and less of a strain on your server. PHP is great, but
there are other solutions out there.
My $0.02, of course. :)
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---John Holmes...
Amazon
When you say batches of 500 , would that mean you put pauses between
each batch ? Or do you prepare each email as a file and then send them
out in batches of 500? Whats the time space between each batch? Assuming
I was stuck with sendmail, what would you recommend ?
Well, I don't know
Dear all,
I have read that using mail() in a for loop to send a lot of emails (
around 1k-10k ) emails is not advised due to the fact that it can be
resource intensive hence or the script might take so much time that it
ti,es out. However what if i append all the emails into the Bcc: header
as
* Thus wrote Mohanaraj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Dear all,
I have read that using mail() in a for loop to send a lot of emails (
around 1k-10k ) emails is not advised due to the fact that it can be
resource intensive hence or the script might take so much time that it
ti,es out. However what if
Michael Geier wrote:
1. many providers will not accept email messages with horrendous amounts of
BCC: entries (very spam indicative)
Say we limit the BCC list to a hundred email addresesses. And use cron
jobs to send the emails out every hour -- would that be ok?
What would you consider
1. many providers will not accept email messages with horrendous amounts of
BCC: entries (very spam indicative)
2. do not use mail() to do this
3. there are many excellent PHP mail classes (PHPClasses has a few and
PHPMailer is an excellent alternative as well)
4. IM(H)O, if you are going to
Hi! Mohanaraj,
If you have still not decided about what you are going to use, you can
check the several mailing list managers at
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Mailing_List_Managers/index.html
(this will help you get more confused ;) ). Also there seems to be a
good script..
Michael Geier wrote:
See answer above.
With Qmail and homegrown software, I have several servers sending upwards of
13K emails per minute. All of these are HTML emails with: Custom headers,
Custom unsubscribes. I create my email list and break it into files of 500,
then loop through those
* Thus wrote John W. Holmes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Mohanaraj wrote:
What would be the best way to handle this ?
Go get a program that's made to send out emails like this. Odds are
it'll be faster and less of a strain on your server. PHP is great, but
there are other solutions out there.
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