Re: sending email to a mailing list

I do not agree. First off all (in my case) I do want to send personalized e-mails. And even if I cancel this wish.. how about adresses which fail? You will never ever find out how many adresses failed by putting them into the all in bcc. And.. isn't there a restriction? What happens if you put 10000 adresses into the header? I am pretty sure this will fail. I guess the only really good solution is to let the MTA do the job for ya. I just do not know how, but I am positive that this is the best solution (since the MTA is made for such things while php is not) Andy "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:B9925DD0.EBD4%justin@indent.com.au... > 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 > >