Re: PHP broadcast mailer

----- Original Message ---- > From: George Langley <george.langley@shaw.ca> > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Sent: Fri, October 16, 2009 10:56:42 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer > > Hi there. At what point would it be beneficial to subscribe to a mass mail > service such as Constant Contact or iContact, to avoid being blacklisted for > sending too many e-mails? > > George > > On 16-Oct-09, at 11:41 PM, Brian Hazelton wrote: > > > I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent out in > time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and right now we have > 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can scale well regardless of the > number of subscribers. Right now I use mysql to store the email and use > phpmailer in a loop to send an email to each of the emails in the db, it is > already slow with just 400(takes around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). > Has anyone built a broadcast email script and willing to help me? > > > > --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Good point, George. Forgot about that ... hehe. My reply went out just as yours came in.