Re: Mail problem with more than 1k users

I started dealing with this several years ago using Perl. The closest I got with sendmail was to check that the call worked, and if it didn't try again up to 5 times. For me, bottom line, if you want to do what you are trying to do, use something besides sendmail. I switched to Qmail, and have successfully sent 15,000+ personalized messages, one at a time, with both Perl and PHP. (It takes a couple hours, but it does work.) Of course I only send opt in email, and I hope you are doing the same, as spam is always evil. :) HTH, Peter Janett New Media One Web Services ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Upgrades Are Now Live!!! Windows 2000 accounts - Cold Fusion 5.0 and Imail 7.1 Sun Solaris (UNIX) accounts - PHP 4.1.2, mod_perl/1.25, Stronghold/3.0 (Apache/1.3.22), MySQL 3.23.43 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PostgreSQL coming soon! http://www.newmediaone.net webmaster@newmediaone.net (303)828-9882 ----- 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: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:57 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 >