Re: sending 5000+ emails - use PHP?
| From: | Michael Stearne | Date: | Mon, 02 Jul 2001 02:07:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: sending 5000+ emails - use PHP? | ||
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PHP can handle this (although you will definitely have to disable script timeout) in one run. But a smarter thing to do would be to not send all the 5000 emails at one time rather come up with a method that runs the PHP script every 5 minutes (a cron job) and send the newsletter out in 200+ email batches. This will reduce the load one the web server and also the mail server.
Michael
On Sunday, July 1, 2001, at 09:13 PM, Matthew Delmarter wrote:
I at looking at using PHP to send a monthly newsletter to 5000+ users who have subscribed via our site. The newsletter will be in HTML format for those who have selected this option - otherwise plain text. Can PHP handle something like this? Regards, Matthew Delmarter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list- admin@lists.php.net