Re: sending email to a mailing list

on 29/08/02 8:54 AM, Andy (news.letters@gmx.de) wrote: > 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 know of site sending with a lot more than that, although the you talk about restrictions may be imposed by the host... and their host may be less restrictive. > 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) It'll make your host happy too. It *can* be done with PHP, it's just that every solution is a real messy job -- nothing is simple. FWIW, I wish to send personalised emails too, but at the moment can't see the light. Justin French > 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 >> >> > >