Re: mail() usage in for loops

> When you say batches of 500 , would that mean you put pauses between > each batch ? Or do you prepare each email as a file and then send them > out in batches of 500? Whats the time space between each batch? Assuming > I was stuck with sendmail, what would you recommend ? Well, I don't know what Michael is doing, but we found that mail tended to be slow. If we didn't wait for each message, we tended to cause errors. So we wrote a service that called a PHP routine to ship the messages one at a time, and check that the process had completed for each message before sending the next. You can get mass-mailing systems written in Perl, I think there are now some available for PHP. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp