Re: bulk emailer

Hello Richard, Friday, March 11, 2005, 3:34:01 PM, you wrote: RL> The mail() function is designed for quickie one-off emails, not RL> sending out thousands. Hell, it can't even handle dozens, not RL> reliably, at least not on some hardware/connections. I've used it to send a little over 3,000. On one of my TheBat lists, we had a user subscribe with one of those confounded challenge/response e-mail addresses and the challenge didn't show what the e-mail address was that the challenge was for, so I wrote a script to send an e-mail to each subscriber and in the subject and message body I echo'd out the e-mail address being e-mailed to. Within an hour I had the challenge showing the e-mail address in the subject line and we summarily unsubscribed them. Granted this was on a Windows system which was using Mercury and not SendMail though. Cheers, Leif Gregory -- TB Lists Moderator (and fellow registered end-user) PCWize Editor / ICQ 216395 / PGP Key ID 0x7CD4926F Web Site <http://www.PCWize.com>