Re: sending 5000+ emails - use PHP?

Richard Heyes wrote: > > > We regularly use PHP to send messages to a 100,000+ member > > mailing list. No > > problem. I did insert some periodic pauses to give the mail > > server some > > breathing room. :) > > Are you using the mail() function for this? Or talking direct to an smtp > server? ----- We do this with mail() now and then. The caution about doing "periodic pauses" may be important. A few years ago I crashed a mail server by doing a mass email with no sleep() embedded. However, FWIW, not more than a month or so ago, just for the heck of it, for a message that went to "only" about 2500, I took sleep() out. I don't know what sendmail woes on our mail server running Linux 6.2, but it did things gracefully, queued things up somehow, and didn't choke. I have no idea what our mail server would do with 100,000, though... -- Justin Farnsworth Eye Integrated Communications 321 South Evans - Suite 203 Greenville, NC 27858 | Tel: (252) 353-0722