Re: sending 5000+ emails - use PHP?

Justin Farnsworth <jef@eyeintegrated.com> wrote: > 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... also depends if you only have 'valid' email addresses in your database, means email addresses that actually excists and not just sakljh@sdkfjhsd.dsf, if you have 2000 of them and all are thrown in your queue sendmail may choke a little more on 2500 messages, than if all goes right through. Or am I wrong? -- Henrik Hansen