Re: sending 5000+ emails - use PHP?

From: Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 20:57:30 +0000
Subject: Re: sending 5000+ emails - use PHP?
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"Kman" <mailing_list@hostpacific.com> wrote: > From: "infoz" <infoz@earthlink.net> >> >> If all the messages were identical, we might be able to get some > efficiency >> by sorting the list by domain name and batching them up with SMTP > > That's a very BAD idea. If you sort the mail by domain, you will flood > the mail queue because normally, mail sent to hotmail or yahoo will need > a repeated attempts before getting through. Better leave the email > address randomized as they are. strange but i heard otherwise, I heard that sorting by domain would speed up thing because the mailserver allready has a connection to the forign mailserver, what do you mean by repeated replies? -- Henrik Hansen

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