Re: Mass mail algo

If you're running sendmail How about setting up a text file with all the email addresses to be sent to and then a sendmail alias that calls that file. ie /etc/aliases myfreakymaillist: :include: /home/httpd/mailinglist all you would need to do is mailto: myfreakymaillist and all of the recipients in /home/httpd/mailinglist would be mailed. just another option. personnaly I let my page time out as it still sends the emails to the 1300+ addresses on my list. -- Kind Regards Aaron Sinclair Webmaster, Regional Communications Mercy Ships-Pacific http://www.mercyships-pacific.org.nz > From: "R. Kurniawan" <ricky@rileks.co.id> > Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:57:39 +0700 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Mass mail algo > > 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