Re: Maximum number of emails in mail() command

Mailserver is the limit. regards, B On Monday 21 February 2005 10:22, Dave wrote: > PHP General, > > The Situation: > I would like to set up a few newsletters that goes out to people > listed in a MySQL database by sending the message from a web form > generated by PHP. The mail will be sent out using the mail() command. > Most of the newsletters that users can subscribe to are unlikely to > have more than 100 or 200 recipients. But the main one will start out > with 500, and soon reach 1000. Beyond that it's hard to say. It's > conceivable it might even get to 2000 or more, but for now I'm assuming > I should build something that can handle 1500 recipients. > > The Question: > I know I can specify multiple email addresses in the BCC field by > comma delineating them. But I'm wondering if there is an upper limit to > how many email addresses can be attached this way. Is there any upper > limit? Are there performance considerations? Is the limit within PHP or > the mail server or a combination of both? > > -- > Dave Gutteridge > dave@tokyocomedy.com > Tokyo Comedy Store > http://www.tokyocomedy.com/english/