Re: sending bulk emails

Hi I find that the best way to do it is with a script having a long/unlimited timeout, but limiting it to only a few hundred mails per execution in the SQL '... LIMIT 500'. IMO better this way than a short-timeout script - sending one email can sometimes take ages (long DNS lookup, slow connection to the host, etc...) Shane On Friday 02 November 2001 4:18 pm, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: > 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 > > #-------------------------------------------------------# -- Shane