Re: Re: Batch E-Mail Problem

I understand this solution, but are you telling me that companies that send millions of emails per day simply use the BCC line in the email? I can't imagine this is the "proper" way of doing things...I do, after all, need to send 50,000 emails at a time. Can anyone else verify this? --- Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote: > Hello, > > On 08/14/2002 08:54 PM, Daren Cotter wrote: > > I have a PHP script that queries a MySQL database, > > retrieves email addresses, and sends an email to > all > > members of a website. > > > > The problem is this: the PHP script times out > after > > sending about 5,000 mailings, and I have to > restart it > > 10 times in order to mail the entire list! > > > > This is an ongoing problem I have had for almost a > > year now. I have tried MANY things to make this > work > > better, which I have outlined below: > > > > 1) Upped the Max Excecution Time in PHP from 30 to > a > > ridiculously high 300 (is this a security issue?) > > 2) Upped the Max amount of memory a PHP script can > > have from 8mb to 16mb > > 3) Running sendmail in "deferred" mode instead of > > "background" mode, and processing the mail queue > ever > > 5 minutes instead of the default 1 hour. > > Your problem is that your solution does not scale > well. A much more > scalable solution is to put all recipients in BCC: > and just send one > message. It just takes a few seconds to run that. > > > -- > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com