Re: Mass mail algo

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, R. Kurniawan wrote: > Thanks for the replies people, I really appreciate it. Finally I came to > the conclusion that apparently PHP cannot handle such mass mailing system. > > I'll talk to the sysadmin here, he's on a honeymoon, will be back on Monday > (18 Sep) and see if he can set something up for me... > > Thanks again :) PHP Handles mass mailing just fine. I built a script for FSN.net that emailed out new passwords to all their 90,000 users. What I did, if I recall correctly, was set the max execution time to 4 hours (set_time_limit(3600 * 4); ). Generate the new passwords. Then email 100, wait 5 seconds, email another 100...etc etc. I quit the company befor the script could be put into production but I tested it on a fake database containing 5000 users all with my email address and effectivly mail bombed myself :) All you have to worry about it overloading the outgoing sendmail buffers, and make sure your max. execution time is pretty high. -- James Atkinson ----------------------------------------------------------------- James Atkinson 100world Technical Developer 512-1529 West 6th Avenue phone: +1-604-637-8122 Vancouver, BC, V6J 1R1 fax: +1-604-742-1770 Canada email: james.atkinson@100world.com http://www.100world.com +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message may contain confidential and/or privileged | | information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to | | receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, | | discolse or take any action based on this message or any | | information herein. If you have received this message in | | error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail | | and delete this message. Thank you for you cooperation | +---------------------------------------------------------------+