Re: Mass mail algo
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Thu, 14 Sep 2000 05:08:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Mass mail algo | ||
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, R. Kurniawan wrote:
> Anybody knows an efficient algo for mass mailing 3000+ members (and
> growing) with :
>
> 1. email address being pulled from MySQL?
> 2. does not timeout (what else is new :D)
>
> Here's how i figure my options:
> 1. Extract email_addr from MySQL then sent them one at a time (most likely
> will timeout...)
> 2. Extract all email_addr from MySQL, store into one huge array (what about
> memory overhead?) then :
> a. sent them one at a time (will also likely to timeout...)
> b. collect and send every "x" email address (most possibly will show at
> their "TO: email field" - not wanted)
> R. Kurniawan
> Web Developer
> PT. Praisindo Dotkom Rileks Division
> http://www.rileks.com/
You could use the Bcc field; grab one address and put it in the To, then
select say another 50 and put them in Bcc.
Or better, use a mailing list software and just create the file of
subscribers from your database.
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