[PHP] High-Volume Newsletter Techniques?
Yes, I saw the discussion a few days earlier on this topic, but I'm wondering if there is still some unmined wisdom out there about building a script that sends a newsletter out to 25,000+ people The very impressive class I found (phpmailer-1.41) looked great, but it didn't *directly* address the high-volume issue in the readme so I'm still a little nervous. And, unfortunately, it's not one of those types of technical challenges you can keep testing over and over without seriously annoying the first 100 or so people on your list who *do* get the email before the script times out. I think the amount of trash email I get each day proves that vast mailings aren't TOO difficult, but I think I could use a little wisdom before I give it a shot. Anyone? I'll buy you a coke! Thank you in advance, Sondra Russell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] High-Volume Newsletter Techniques?
At 12:14 PM 11/14/2001 +0100, Sondra Russell wrote: Yes, I saw the discussion a few days earlier on this topic, but I'm wondering if there is still some unmined wisdom out there about building a script that sends a newsletter out to 25,000+ people The very impressive class I found (phpmailer-1.41) looked great, but it didn't *directly* address the high-volume issue in the readme so I'm still a little nervous. [snip] Why not off load the responsibility of sending the email to some other program besides PHP? In other words, set up a mailing list on your MTA and have the PHP script send the message to one address, the mailing list, and have your MTA (Sendmail, for example) have the responsibility of forwarding the message to all it's intended recipients... - Michael Sims mhsims at midsouth dot rr dot com The manual said the program requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux ... - -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] High-Volume Newsletter Techniques?
This is something I am curious about also. We are currently building a system to allow people to maintain/send out newsletters (40,000+). We have done some initial testing of the process (which uses the mail() function) and have found that it takes about 30 - 40 minutes to process 4000 emails. Right now we are doing this through a web page so we can watch the process, I myself, was perplexed when the script didn't timeout after 2.5 minutes (the timeout period set in php.ini) and actually finished the process. My question is: will this still be true when sending out 40,000 emails and the process takes 5 - 6 hours? Like Sondra, I don't really want to anger thousands of people testing this thing out. Larry Jeannette Sondra Russell writes: Yes, I saw the discussion a few days earlier on this topic, but I'm wondering if there is still some unmined wisdom out there about building a script that sends a newsletter out to 25,000+ people The very impressive class I found (phpmailer-1.41) looked great, but it didn't *directly* address the high-volume issue in the readme so I'm still a little nervous. And, unfortunately, it's not one of those types of technical challenges you can keep testing over and over without seriously annoying the first 100 or so people on your list who *do* get the email before the script times out. I think the amount of trash email I get each day proves that vast mailings aren't TOO difficult, but I think I could use a little wisdom before I give it a shot. Anyone? I'll buy you a coke! Thank you in advance, Sondra Russell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] High-Volume Newsletter Techniques?
Just a reminder of sorts when dealing with this kind of issue. Where I work, we never had a need to mail 20,000+ newsletters but we do distribute 300 or so each week. On our initial tests, we discovered our external smtp server (our isp account), limited our mailings to chunks of 20 emails at a time, which meant we had to reconnect after every 20 newsletters had been sent. We still deal with this issue, and are looking for a more efficient/friendly isp to handle our needs. Alternatively (plan B) we could set up our own server in-house. We don't know yet but there could be also limits on our DSL connection imposed by the ISP. Still studying the problem. Ciao, Fans! Larry Jeannette II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... This is something I am curious about also. We are currently building a system to allow people to maintain/send out newsletters (40,000+). We have done some initial testing of the process (which uses the mail() function) and have found that it takes about 30 - 40 minutes to process 4000 emails. Right now we are doing this through a web page so we can watch the process, I myself, was perplexed when the script didn't timeout after 2.5 minutes (the timeout period set in php.ini) and actually finished the process. My question is: will this still be true when sending out 40,000 emails and the process takes 5 - 6 hours? Like Sondra, I don't really want to anger thousands of people testing this thing out. Larry Jeannette Sondra Russell writes: Yes, I saw the discussion a few days earlier on this topic, but I'm wondering if there is still some unmined wisdom out there about building a script that sends a newsletter out to 25,000+ people The very impressive class I found (phpmailer-1.41) looked great, but it didn't *directly* address the high-volume issue in the readme so I'm still a little nervous. And, unfortunately, it's not one of those types of technical challenges you can keep testing over and over without seriously annoying the first 100 or so people on your list who *do* get the email before the script times out. I think the amount of trash email I get each day proves that vast mailings aren't TOO difficult, but I think I could use a little wisdom before I give it a shot. Anyone? I'll buy you a coke! Thank you in advance, Sondra Russell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
