Re: mailing list managers

Hello, On 08/13/2002 12:09 PM, Justin French wrote:

Just a quick note to see if anyone has any experience with mailing list managers. I've currently got a DB of subscribers, and basic PHP scripts are not going to be a good long-term solution. I was hoping that maybe there's an opensource or commercial product out there that I can install in my doc root (ie, PHP + MySQL support) which will handle this in a more effective manner (ie, space the mailout across an hour or so, etc etc).

You can do all in PHP if you do things more efficiently. One thing that you should avoid at all costs is personalization. Once you do that, you can just queue a single message to all subscribers, instead one per subscriber. Another point is to have a DBM like database just to cache the subscribers addresses. Such databases are much faster to query than MySQL. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos