Re: bulk emailer

hi [Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 08:42:15PM -0300] This one time, at band camp, Manuel Lemos said: > Hello, > > > For starters, just stay away from SMTP based solutions if you can. It > works but it takes much longer to queue messages that some alternatives > because you need to deal with TCP overhead, which is silly when your MTA > is in the same machine. > > The best alternative is to inject the messages in the local mailer queue > and tell it to no start delivering the messages immediately. > > If you can use sendmail (or exim ) there are some switches for the > sendmail command for that purpose. Using qmail or postfix does not > require any switches. > i have sendmail on this system. anyone have links on how to inject messages into the local mailer queue? > In any case, you may want to try this MIME message composing and sending > class. It provides several means to optimize bulk deliveries, > personalized or not. You can pick a sub-class to optimize deliveries for > the MTA that you use. There are sub-classes for mail, sendmail (or exim > or postfix), qmail, SMTP or Windows pickup folder are supported. > > Regardless of which you use, always call SetBulkMail() function before > start looping deliveries to your users. > > If you are not personalizing message, you can tell the class to cache > message bodies between deliveries to avoid message regeneration overhead. > > If you want to personalize messages, you can even use Smarty as template > engine to speedup personalized message generation. > > There are several examples to demonstrate this: > > http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage > > > > -- > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP > http://www.phpclasses.org/ > > PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products > http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ > > Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator > http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html -- Redmond Militante Software Engineer / Medill School of Journalism FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Wed Sep 29 17:17:49 CDT 2004 i386 3:00PM up 12 days, 3:57, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00