Re: sending email to a mailing list

on 28/08/02 1:38 AM, Raphael Hamzagic (raphael@tabuleiro.com) wrote: > I'm with a little doubt about the best way to send a mail message to a large > mailing list using PHP. I'm not interested in existing mailing list > managers, or source codes. > I dont know if the best way to send emails is to use a repeat loop with > mail() function, or use some other structure to send emails with timeouts > intervals... yes, and yes, providing you want to send personalised emails, which costs huge performance problems and a lkoad on the server... possibly leads to timeouts of the script, timeouts of the browser, etc etc. Not good! the real easy solution is to send ONE email with everyone in the Bcc field. Quick and simple. Won't piss off your host, won't load the server, etc. Justin