RE: [PHP] sendmail question

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ahmed [mailto:ahmed@mazika.com] > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 12:34 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] sendmail question > > > Hi all, > I still have this question, how to make php script sends > an email to a > list of people in a database in the background ? in other > words how to send > an email to 50,000 email address without getting the script > to timeout ? > You'll have to set the max_execution_time to a very high value or to zero ;) But indeed using PHP to send email to about 30.000 email-addresses is not performant IMHO. I use a script to send a newsletter to about 1000 people and it takes about 15 minutes. you can imagine, what time it takes, to send an email to 30.000 people. and i dont use the mail() function a thousand times, but use sendmail. If you wanna try it, use the Bcc:-Field to specify all of the recipients. Have fun tryin it. Best Regards, Mathias Meyer http://www.dynamic-webpages.de