RE: [PHP] sending 5000+ emails - use PHP?

Is it possible to stop the mail delivery once the process has started - even in the middle of a run? -----Original Message----- From: Michael Stearne [mailto:mstearne@entermix.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:07 PM To: Matthew Delmarter Cc: PHP Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP] sending 5000+ emails - use PHP? 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 >