Re: [PHP] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp?
Look at some sample (or just *use*) scripts like the mail class at UpperDesign.com You just fsockopen to your SMTP server port 25, and fread/fwrite the interchange that is required by RFCs to talk nicely to SMTP. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm - Original Message - From: Niklas Lampen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Richard Lynch' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 3:08 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp? I'm sending a huge amount of mails with php. How can I send mail directly to the smtp server? Right now I'm using pipe to send each mail to sendmail. Works fine with about 35 000 mails, but it takes ages to run. What would be the smartest way? Thanks! -Original Message- From: Richard Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25. elokuuta 2001 3:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp? My question - is this going to work for a few thousand emails? Depends on your server. What about 100,000? No way. Would it be better to send the mail directly to the smtp server? Yes. Can you foresee any problems? Several. The first one is you didn't read the archives or look for pre-existing code to talk to SMTP directly. :-) Manuel's upperdesign.com has one, and there are plenty of others. You could roll your own -- I did, so it can't be too tricky. :-) Also, at that volume, I think you're going to run into trouble just in talking to the all the SMTP servers. I *BELIEVE* one major speed-up can be achieved by sorting the outgoing emails by their recipient's domains... You may want to research how real mailing list software deals with this if you actually expect to hit 100K addresses. If they're all the same email, you'd be *WAY* better off just interfacing to majordomo, ezmlm, SmartList, or whatever other mailing list software was designed to handle this. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm -- 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] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp?
I'm sending a huge amount of mails with php. How can I send mail directly to the smtp server? Right now I'm using pipe to send each mail to sendmail. Works fine with about 35 000 mails, but it takes ages to run. What would be the smartest way? Thanks! -Original Message- From: Richard Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25. elokuuta 2001 3:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp? My question - is this going to work for a few thousand emails? Depends on your server. What about 100,000? No way. Would it be better to send the mail directly to the smtp server? Yes. Can you foresee any problems? Several. The first one is you didn't read the archives or look for pre-existing code to talk to SMTP directly. :-) Manuel's upperdesign.com has one, and there are plenty of others. You could roll your own -- I did, so it can't be too tricky. :-) Also, at that volume, I think you're going to run into trouble just in talking to the all the SMTP servers. I *BELIEVE* one major speed-up can be achieved by sorting the outgoing emails by their recipient's domains... You may want to research how real mailing list software deals with this if you actually expect to hit 100K addresses. If they're all the same email, you'd be *WAY* better off just interfacing to majordomo, ezmlm, SmartList, or whatever other mailing list software was designed to handle this. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm -- 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] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp?
use php for everything from subscription management to email authoring and use a perl script to effectively send the emails At 10:08 25/08/01, Niklas Lampen wrote: I'm sending a huge amount of mails with php. How can I send mail directly to the smtp server? Right now I'm using pipe to send each mail to sendmail. Works fine with about 35 000 mails, but it takes ages to run. What would be the smartest way? Thanks! -Original Message- From: Richard Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25. elokuuta 2001 3:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp? My question - is this going to work for a few thousand emails? Depends on your server. What about 100,000? No way. Would it be better to send the mail directly to the smtp server? Yes. Can you foresee any problems? Several. The first one is you didn't read the archives or look for pre-existing code to talk to SMTP directly. :-) Manuel's upperdesign.com has one, and there are plenty of others. You could roll your own -- I did, so it can't be too tricky. :-) Also, at that volume, I think you're going to run into trouble just in talking to the all the SMTP servers. I *BELIEVE* one major speed-up can be achieved by sorting the outgoing emails by their recipient's domains... You may want to research how real mailing list software deals with this if you actually expect to hit 100K addresses. If they're all the same email, you'd be *WAY* better off just interfacing to majordomo, ezmlm, SmartList, or whatever other mailing list software was designed to handle this. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm -- 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] -- 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] Re: send mail to mailing list using mail() or smtp?
My question - is this going to work for a few thousand emails? Depends on your server. What about 100,000? No way. Would it be better to send the mail directly to the smtp server? Yes. Can you foresee any problems? Several. The first one is you didn't read the archives or look for pre-existing code to talk to SMTP directly. :-) Manuel's upperdesign.com has one, and there are plenty of others. You could roll your own -- I did, so it can't be too tricky. :-) Also, at that volume, I think you're going to run into trouble just in talking to the all the SMTP servers. I *BELIEVE* one major speed-up can be achieved by sorting the outgoing emails by their recipient's domains... You may want to research how real mailing list software deals with this if you actually expect to hit 100K addresses. If they're all the same email, you'd be *WAY* better off just interfacing to majordomo, ezmlm, SmartList, or whatever other mailing list software was designed to handle this. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm -- 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]
