Re: High-Volume Newsletter Techniques?

This is something I am curious about also. We are currently building a system to allow people to maintain/send out newsletters (40,000+). We have done some initial testing of the process (which uses the mail() function) and have found that it takes about 30 - 40 minutes to process 4000 emails. Right now we are doing this through a web page so we can watch the process, I myself, was perplexed when the script didn't timeout after 2.5 minutes (the timeout period set in php.ini) and actually finished the process. My question is: will this still be true when sending out 40,000 emails and the process takes 5 - 6 hours? Like Sondra, I don't really want to anger thousands of people testing this thing out. Larry Jeannette Sondra Russell writes: > 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. > > I think the amount of trash email I get each day proves that vast > mailings aren't TOO difficult, but I think I could use a little > wisdom before I give it a shot. > > Anyone? I'll buy you a coke! > > Thank you in advance, > Sondra Russell > > -- > 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 >