RE: [PHP-DB] sending bulk emails

I just encountered the same problem... I made a MySQL table with an email_id, email, and sentdate field. while(true) { set_time_limit(10); //Give script 10 more seconds to run SELECT email_id, email FROM thelist WHERE sentdate=0 LIMIT 1 if record not found, then break; then I use the mail function to send it UPDATE thelist SET sentdate=UNIX_TIMESTAMP() WHERE email_id=$email_id then I use the sleep() or usleep() function to wait a second or so (so I do not use too much bandwidth) } -Jason Garber IonZoft.com At 07:26 AM 11/2/2001 -0600, Rick Emery wrote:

Ooooops....we've just armed a potential spammer... -----Original Message----- From: Russ Michell [mailto:r.j.michell@apu.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 6:20 AM To: Cami Cc: PHP DB list Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] sending bulk emails Does anybody know how to send bulk emails using php? Don't do it!! But of you must - I guess you could build an array containing email addresses, names, etc - taken from form input or a database or whatever and then loop the arrays mailing people... $mail = "mail("; for($i=0; $i<$email_array_name;$i++( {

        $mail .= "$values,";
        }

$mail .= "\"$subject\",\"$body\",\"From: $from\");"; Something like that anyway (that's just off the top of my head) Regards. Russ On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:26:22 -0000 Cami <cami@fcpl.com> wrote: Hi guys, Does anybody know how to send bulk emails using php? Thanks, Cami -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net #-------------------------------------------------------# "Believe nothing - consider everything" Russ Michell Anglia Polytechnic University Webteam Room 1C 'The Eastings' East Road, Cambridge e: r.j.michell@apu.ac.uk w: www.apu.ac.uk/webteam www.theruss.com #-------------------------------------------------------# -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net