Re: Sending mass mail with PHP

> I've been reading the previous postings on the subject and started wondering > if it was possible to create sendmail queue files directly with PHP. > > What I mean is that I would have to get the recipients from the db, write > the needed queue files and then fire sendmail up commanding it to handle the > queue just created. > > Comments of this would be very welcome because this way I would have to open > only one sendmail process per posting and this problem of having to send > many (perhaps over 100k) emails would otherwise probably kill the server. I dunno if making your own sendmail queue is better than spewing directly at port 25, but if you haven't already, check out Manuel Lemos' mail class that does that. But if by 100K you mean 100K people getting the same email, I think you are probably still in trouble -- You probably need to find a way to integrate PHP with a mailing list package. PHP just isn't cut out to handle that volume of email, I don't think...