Actually I remember that I did have the same problem. I had to use
sleep() also even though I was only sending a few hundred rather than a
few thousand.
- Dan
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, PHP List wrote:
> Thats interesting.
> I tried to do the same thing with 5000 emails using sendmail, and I found
> that only about 1/2 were actually sent, it seems like the multiple calls to
> mail caused some of them to be ignored. I had to sleep for a couple of
> seconds before each call to mail() in order to get them all out.
>
> No one else had this problem?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Jimmy Bäckström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Tyler Longren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: SV: [PHP] Sending alots of mail
>
>
> > I have a system where we send periodic batches of 60,000 messages at a
> > time, so it's definitely doable. It helps to put some throttling in
> > there (i.e. a sleep() periodically) to be kind to your e-mail server.
> >
> > - Tim
> >
> > On 16 Aug 2001 18:34:11 +0200, Jimmy Bäckström wrote:
> > > Hmm I knew that =)
> > > I just wondered if it's such a good idea. 5000 mail is very much you
> know.
> > >
> > > /Jimmy
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Tyler Longren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: Jimmy Bäckström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:25 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Sending alots of mail
> > >
> > >
> > > > This was just discussed last week. Here's how:
> > > > $connection = mysql_connect("host","user","pass");
> > > > $db = mysql_select_db("db_name", $connection);
> > > > $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY email ASC");
> > > > while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
> > > > $email = $row["email"];
> > > > $name = $row["name"];
> > > > // code to send email (use the mail() function)
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > Good luck,
> > > > Tyler Longren
> > > > Captain Jack Communications
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > www.captainjack.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:29:04 +0200
> > > > Jimmy Bäckström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi list!
> > > > > I'm about to write an application that takes about 5000 mailadresses
> > > > > from a database, and then sends a mail to each one of them. I
> haven't
> > > > > done this kind of apps before, so I don't know if it's a good idea.
> Does
> > > > > anyone have any suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > > /Jimmy
> > > > >
> > > >
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