Volume email handling: I got the email blues

Hello All, I want to grab several thousand email addresses from my subscriber list and email them. I wrote a script to do this. The addresses come from an online database. I have completely rewritten the script once, but still it gives me email blues. The script in general is very sluggish and frequently chokes after a few thousand sends. Once I was told that my methodology is inefficient for larger volumes. Looping through a database set and sending email for each record was not as efficient as using some dedicated third party application designed to do just this. Ok, I'm ready for such suggestions now. So, what is the best approach for this problem, and can you provide download urls for a decent solution. I want to marry the code with a new software program I'm writing. Thanks in advance! Kind Regards, Richard Creech richardc@dreamriver.com 250.744.3350 Pacific Time Canada Create your own Yellow Pages Directory FREE with phpYellow Pages Buy the Premium Version and receive Professional Features http://www.dreamriver.com