Re: SV: [PHP] Sending alots of mail

I've heard that qmail is better for a lot of things and easier to configure, but I've never actual used it. Perhaps I'll give it a try next time i set one up. - Dan On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Jimmy Bäckström wrote: > Hmm that's what I thought about. But I think the system I'll be using uses qmail. > I've heard that qmail does things better than sendmail? > > /Jimmy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Daniel Adams <danno@wpi.edu> > To: Jimmy Bäckström <broder_b@chello.se> > Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:21 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] Sending alots of mail > > > I did something like that once. Mine sent only about a few hundred at a > time and it was still quite a strain on the system because you have a TON > of sendmail processes started and running at the same time. Just be aware > of the possible system load. > - dan > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Jimmy Bäckström wrote: > > > Hi list! > > I'm about to write an application that takes about 5000 mailadresses from a database, > > and then sends a mail to each one of them. I haven't done this kind of apps before, so I > > don't know if it's a good idea. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > /Jimmy > > > > --