Re: Mail problem with more than 1k users

I suggest you get a mailing list program if your sending to more than 1k of users Philip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> To: "Research and Development" <rand@dealante.com>; "PHP General List" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Mail problem with more than 1k users > This gets discussed quite frequently. > > My guess is that your ISP *may* be imposing some limitations, but more > likely your PHP script is timing out or something similar. > > Justin > > > on 24/09/02 9:08 AM, Research and Development (rand@dealante.com) wrote: > > > Hello. I wrote a PHP script that will pull records from a database > > (emails) and then mail something to the emails in the result set. > > Pretty simple and it worked. > > > > Now that the database has over 1 thousand records I began to experience > > performance problems. I figured that my problem was that Sendmail does > > not process emails that have more than x number of emails. > > > > So I re-designed the script to send emails in parts. 500 emails per > > header. But after the database reached more than 3,000 records the > > emailing did not work at all. Sendmail refused to send to any of the > > emails in the database result set. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >