On 19 Jun 2003 at 9:54, Steve Miller wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have written a small php script which pulls email addresses (about 1000)
> from my online db and sends a small html email newsletter (this is not spam
> but a weekly member update). Normally, I would not worry about having enough
> time to loop 1000 times through a section of a script. However, since this
> must connect to sendmail each time through, I am concerned because there is
> a 30 second serverside script timeout.
> 
> Questions:
> 1) should I be concerned about a timeout, or does connecting to sendmail not
> affect the run speed of the loop
> 
> 2) this is on a remote shared webserver on which I only have access to my
> domain via telnet. Is there a way to view sendmail logs to see if everything
> went?
> 
> Thanks for any guidance,
> 
> steve miller
> 

Why not put all email addresses in Cc field and send it at once? Unless you are 
creating  member specific content, it should work or better yet why not use a 
dedicated 
mailing list software for this purpose?

R'twick


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