How many emails per hour can people generate on a typical dedicated server? on qmail? on smtp?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Manuel Lemos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ed Lazor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Sending an e-mail to 1,000 people > Hello, > > Ed Lazor wrote: > > > > At 06:25 PM 2/2/2002 -0500, Chris Cocuzzo wrote: > > >Godamnit. Shut-up about this already for godsakes and answer the > > >original question!! > > > > LOL hehe good point Chris. > > Aleluia, somebody sensible! :-) > > > > >"Ben Clumeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > > I would like to send an e-mail (the same e-mail) to 1,000 different > > > > people. I want each persons name to be in the "To:" field. Is there a > > > way to > > > > customize it to where it can say Dear____ (having a different persons name > > > > corresponding to an e-mail address) so that it looks customized. > > > > Ben, how you approach this will depend on how you have the data > > stored. Let's assume two things: you have the e-mail addresses and names > > in a database and know how to retrieve and store them into the variables > > $email and $name. That said, create the body of your text: > > > > $body = " > > Dear $name, > > > > Here are recent developments on our web site... etc. > > "; > > > > Then use the mail function (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php) > > to send the letter to the person like this: > > > > mail($email, "Site update", $body, "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"); > > > > The next thing you'll probably start wondering is how to send fancy e-mail > > instead of those generic text based ones... PHPBuilder has an article > > you'll want to check out located here: > > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kartic20000807.php3. > > I do not advice anybody to send personalized bulk mail, even less in > PHP. It will take a lot of time to just queue the message in the local > relay mail server and since each message has to be stored separately in > the mail server queue disk consuming a lot of space. > > What I recommend is to just queue a single message with all recepients > in Bcc:. This is better done with qmail using qmail-inject because you > do not have to actually add Bcc: headers to the message, just the > recipients addresses, one per line, and then headers and the body of > the message. You may want to try this class for composing and sending > MIME messages. It has subclasses for queing with PHP mail function, SMTP > server, sendmail and qmail. > > http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/9 > > If you can use it, I recommend to use qmail because it is much faster > than the other alternatives to queue message to be sent to many > recipients and also provides very good means to figure exactly which > addresses are bouncing your messages so you can process them eventually > unsubscribing the users in question, thanks to its VERP capability > (Variable Envelope Return Path). http://www.qmail.org/ > > If you want to send messages regularly to the same group of users, I > recommend that you use ezmlm-idx because it provides very efficient and > secure way to handle subscriptions and messages bouncings. > http://www.ezmlm.org/ > > I don't recommend the patches of ezmlm that let it be interfaced with > user lists maintained in MySQL or PostgreSQL. I doubt that those > databases are faster to query than DJB's cdb user list databases. Also, > I don't think that most people want the user to be deleted from a > database if it's address is bouncing for too long (11 days). > > Anyway, you may want to look into this PHP web interface to create and > setup options of ezmlm mailing lists. It also comes with a SOAP server > interface that you can use to provide Web services to subscribe, > unsubscriber, verify and count users in ezmlm mailing lists. > > http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/177 > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
