Re: Mass mail algo

Or dump the message and the email addresses to text files and then have a cron job that checks say every 5 minutes for a new batch to be emailed and let it do it... (perhaps via bulk_mail or similar) In article <4.3.2.7.0.20000914114310.00ad0940@mail.rileks.co.id>, R. Kurniawan <ricky@rileks.co.id> 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/ > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >