RE: [PHP] mailing to 19000 users

Good day, I've already done this once with Perl and qmail, which was used against about 50,000 users. I'm sure it would not be much different with PHP. All I did was create a program to get the addresses from the DB, and then use what effectively is a wrapper script for qmail-inject (you would use whatever program you use) that would add 500 people to the BCC list at a time and pass the text of the e-mail to the program via a pipe. It was about a 15 minute job. I would recommend it, as it's easy to convert if you have to switch MTAs. ============================ Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 -----Original Message----- From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-general@gremlins.com.hk] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:37 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] mailing to 19000 users On Monday 28 January 2002 23:33, Anas Mughal wrote: > I am soon to encounter the problem Mostafa is facing. > Currently, I have written my custom code to mail to > users subscribed to mailing lists on my site. (It is > custom code using PHP, MySQL, Linux cron.) > I was wondering if there is a mailing list system that > could use MySQL to retreive the list of subscribers. > Thanks. If you're using qmail, then ezmlm (or even better ezmlm-idx) can be made to work with MySQL. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk /* Leveraging always beats prototyping. */ -- 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