SV: [PHP-DB] sending bulk emails

Yes, you will get a timeout. I made a script that wrote a * on the page for each sent mail. This way your script won't time out, and the sending process looks REALLY cool.. hehe Here's a sample snippet: <? while ($adr = mysql_fetch_array($query_sender)) { $to = $adr["epost"] ; $postid = $adr["postid"] ; echo "*"; // Her is the * printed. flush(); // Flush, to continously update page.. // Sending the mail $send = mail($to,$subject,"$topp\n\n$sak\n\n$bunn","From: Havneavisen <nyhetsbrev@havneavisen.net>\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\nReply-To: Havneavisen <nyhetsbrev@havneavisen.net>\nReturn-Path: <nyhetsbrev@havneavisen.net>\nX-Sender: <nyhetsbrev@havneavisen.net>\nX-Mailer: PHP\nSender: nyhetsbrev@havneavisen.net\n") ; if (!$send) { # Legg inn i databasen eller fil! <---- $table = "deadmail" ; $dead_entry = "insert into deadmail (id, epost, base) VALUES (\"$postid\",\"$to\",\"$base_1\")" ; mysql_query($dead_entry) or die ("Could not store the bad mail") ; echo "Problemer med å sende til $to<br>" ; continue ; } // Log $go_add = "INSERT INTO maillogg (epost, dato, type) VALUES (\"$to\", NOW(), \"$base_1\")" ; $add_em = @mysql_query($go_add) ; if (!$add_em) { echo "ERROR could not update: $to - $go_add<br> " ; } } end of while... ?> > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > Fra: Jonathan Hilgeman [mailto:JHilgeman@ecx.com] > Sendt: 2. november 2001 17:19 > Til: 'r.j.michell@apu.ac.uk'; Cami > Kopi: PHP DB list > Emne: RE: [PHP-DB] sending bulk emails > > > Interesting that this should come up. The company I work for needs to send > out an e-mail to 95k of their subscribers. Now, this is the first > time in 2 > years, so you can imagine that we'll be getting 94k of bounced e-mail > addresses. So I'm writing a script that will handle sending out > the e-mails > and handling incoming bounced e-mail addresses. In any case, I would think > that my PHP script would time out before sending 95k e-mails. I > know it has > timed out at 30 seconds before, but I can't remember if the faulty script > had an endless loop for 30 seconds or if there was any data > getting sent or > received in that time. Anyone know beforehand whether I will get a timeout > with sending these e-mails, and if so, how to work around it? > > - Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Russ Michell [mailto:r.j.michell@apu.ac.uk] > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:20 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 > >