Re: sending bulk emails

You should sort the addressees by domain first too, to give the MTA a chance to opimize your spam delivery. On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:44:06PM +0000, Shane Wright wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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 > --