RE: [PHP] bulk mail()

I've been doing the following sending personalized mail to 600+ recipients, so far without any signs of discomfort anywhere: set_time_limit($total_rows * 1); // up the script timeout 1 second per email BTW, I use qmail; not sendmail. As I've never used sendmail, I don't know if this is part of your problem or not. I'm guessing a bit, but based on 600+ emails, I'd say that the script itself takes about 10-15 seconds; the mail to be delivered takes a bit longer, perhaps another minute or two. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin French [mailto:justin@indent.com.au] > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:45 AM > To: php > Subject: [PHP] bulk mail() > > > Hi all, > > I've got a mailing on a website, with email address' / names / etc in a > MySQL table. > > I think there's around 120 on it at the moment. > > I've been noticing a growing lag on the sending of mail though... > I've got a > script which takes a message from a form, then runs a while loop > through the > rows of the mailing_list table, replacing a special string with the > subscribers name, and sending using the mail() command. > > However, this time, the script actually failed, with a "failure when > attempting to access blah.com/foo.php" (the sending script). I > have no idea > if SOME people got the email, or what, and have no idea how to check. > > So, I make the assumption that as the mailing list has grown, the script > time has slowed... now it's too big (or the server was too busy) > to process > all the emails before the script timed out. > > > If I didn't want to personalise the emails, I'm sure the script > would run a > lot quicker with every address in the Bcc header, but since we personalise > each email, I can't see any option other than using mail() 200 > times... and > it's only going to get a lot worse as we climb to 1000+. > > So, what options do I have? > > Break the mailing list up into batches of 40 or so? How would I implement > something like this? > > > Any advice / concepts / ideas welcome! > > > Justin French > -------------------- > Creative Director > http://Indent.com.au > -------------------- > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >