Re: [PHP] Sending lots of emails - 2 choices - choose the best one

2007-10-09 Thread marek
The other possible question you might want to ask is: How will the message be formatted and sent... some services such as hotmail will flag the message as spam based on the multiple mail deliveries when used option #2. And there are also many other considerations related to spam. Instead what

Re: [PHP] Sending lots of emails - 2 choices - choose the best one

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel Brown
On 10/9/07, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip Thompson wrote: > > On 10/7/07, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would recommend avoiding the use of BCC from PHP. > > > > Why avoid Bcc from PHP? > > Note that this applies to all automated sending, not just from PHP. > > It depends on how

Re: [PHP] Sending lots of emails - 2 choices - choose the best one

2007-10-09 Thread Stut
Philip Thompson wrote: On 10/7/07, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would recommend avoiding the use of BCC from PHP. Why avoid Bcc from PHP? Note that this applies to all automated sending, not just from PHP. It depends on how it's sending the mail. I've come across configurations where

Re: [PHP] Sending lots of emails - 2 choices - choose the best one

2007-10-08 Thread Philip Thompson
On 10/7/07, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin Zvarík wrote: > > Hello-- > >I want to send email to 100+ recipients. Two choices I thought of: > > > > 1) once call mail() and use BCC, but the negative of this method is that > > every recipient in BCC has header "To" same (so I used to p

Re: [PHP] Sending lots of emails - 2 choices - choose the best one

2007-10-07 Thread Stut
Martin Zvarík wrote: Hello-- I want to send email to 100+ recipients. Two choices I thought of: 1) once call mail() and use BCC, but the negative of this method is that every recipient in BCC has header "To" same (so I used to put my email in here - not email of one of the recipients). 2)

Re: [PHP] Sending lots of emails - 2 choices - choose the best one

2007-10-07 Thread Per Jessen
Martin Zvarík wrote: > Hello-- > I want to send email to 100+ recipients. Two choices I thought of: > > 1) once call mail() and use BCC, but the negative of this method is > that every recipient in BCC has header "To" same (so I used to put my > email in here - not email of one of the recipie

RE: [PHP] Sending lots of emails - 2 choices - choose the best one

2007-10-06 Thread Daevid Vincent
Option 3) setup a dedicated program to handle the mail, such as "mailman" and then send ONE email from PHP to the listserver which will then dispatch the mail accordingly, properly, in batches. http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html (at least, that's how I do it currently) > -Origin