Re: High-Volume Newsletter Techniques?

From: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:18:39 +0000
Subject: Re: High-Volume Newsletter Techniques?
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Hello, Sondra Russell wrote: > > Yes, I saw the discussion a few days earlier on this topic, but I'm > wondering if there is still some unmined wisdom out there about > building a script that sends a newsletter out to 25,000+ people.... > The very impressive class I found (phpmailer-1.41) looked great, but > it didn't *directly* address the high-volume issue in the readme so > I'm still a little nervous. > > And, unfortunately, it's not one of those types of technical > challenges you can keep testing over and over without seriously > annoying the first 100 or so people on your list who *do* get the > email before the script times out. You should be using a dedicated mailing list management system for that like something with ezmlm/qmail. You may want to try this class that lets you manage the creation and properties of ezmlm mailing lists. http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/browse.html/package/177 Regards, Manuel Lemos

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