Re: Many email... and just one "mail" function

"Marian Vasile" <marian@investments.ro> wrote: > Guyz I have a huge database wih emails. > Now I want to send them news weekly and I can't.... how I can send many > emails using mail() function ??? > but in a faster manner that ussualy ?... is that possible ? > > I'm not talking about SPAM here... I have registered users... :) > > How I can send all these 30.000 email addresses ? With 30,000 users I recommend using a mailing list so your mail server can do the heavy crunching. Since you probably run PHP as an Apache module and I suspect your user database changes here are a couple of options to consider. 1. Create a cron job to periodically pull the email addresses from the DB and dump them into a text file that the MLM (mailing list manager) expects (may require an additional step depending on your MLM). 2. Install PHP as a CGI and have it do the same as in option 1, but do directly from your PHP script that sends the email. I say CGI so you can make the script owned by any user you prefer and don't have to make the directory containing the file world writable/readable. If you choose not to go one of these routes you can try grouping email addresses together (perhaps 50 at a time) and batch listing them in the bcc header. You'll likely have to increase PHP's timeout setting in php.ini or within the script itself. I don't recommend this method b/c it will be *much* slower and you will not be able to take advantage of some of the nice features of your MLM that you should really use for a list this large. FYI, there are also methods for accessing SMTP directly (which avoids the mail() function completely). I know there's a class at http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/ and there are others elsewhere. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/