Personally I simply get the e-mail addresses spit out to me from the database and then I input them into a application made just for bulk mailingt. You can also easily write a quick perl or shell script to send it out from a file of names and this way you can "nice" the process so as not to bog down the machine.
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 02/01/2003 at 9:58 AM Justin French wrote: >Check the archives... mail() tends to "break" pretty quickly... sometimes >on >less than 100 personalised emails... The issue ISN'T mail() itself, but >things like server timeouts, script timeouts, etc etc. The issue also >isn't >really HTML mail, but more the fact that each email has to be sent to the >mail que, and this is a slow-ish process, so the script timesout. > >So another option is Bcc'ing the email to everyone in a non-personalised >manner... you can squeeze a lot more emails out of mail() before the script >times out, but you will run into other issues like: > >a) Bcc'd mails of more than 100 recipients can't be sent on most shared >hosts, because it looks like spam -- check with your ISP >b) some mail programs and servers treat mass Bcc emails as spam, I hear > > >At the moment, I've only got mailing lists that deals with 50-300 people, >so >I'm just Bcc'ing them in batches of 20 people... a trade off between lots >of >emails to timeout the script, and lots of people in the Bcc list. > > >I think for 6000 though, you will really need to look at a class like >Manuel's at PHPclasses.org (I think called mimeMail) which has various >work-arounds, none of which I've tried. > > > >Cheers, > >Justin > > > > >on 02/01/03 9:46 AM, Monty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Happy New Year everyone! >> >> Is the PHP mail() command robust enough to use in a little mailing list >app? >> The app will basically send an HTML or Text e-mail to the member >database of >> about 6,000 people. I'm using RedHat Linux 7.2 with PHP 4.2.2, by the >way. >> I'm concerned I'll bog down my server if I issue the mail() command 6,000 >> times on our server, but, maybe it won't be a problem? >> >> Also, although I'm sending HTML e-mail, I'm not including attachments or >> inline graphics (only direct hotlinks to graphics on a web server). Will >> mail() still work okay for this, or do I need to use one of the various >PHP >> e-mail classes available to send HTML e-mail? >> >> Any recommendations for online tutorials about building a mailing list >> manager using PHP would be much appreciated! >> >> Thanks! >> >> Monty >> >> >> >> > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
