Re: Setting up group mailer

From: Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:34:49 +0000
Subject: Re: Setting up group mailer
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In article <3C6B62ED.8B6E1001@phantomcougar.com>, phantom@phantomcougar.com says... > I am planning a script that will send mail to all my clients > (potentially up to 10000, even more clients)... I figured I can loop a > mailer script for every client (I don't want to have more than one email > address per message in the recipient field). > > Any special advise or pages I could view for help or is looping a mailer > script acceptable? I know I had one in ASP once upon a time and the > script was so slow that it would mail about 100 messages in a minute and > the script would time out quickly before I was done. > > Thanks. This topic seems to come up quite regularly; if you have a look back over the archives I think you will find that the general opinion is that you should use a dedicated package for mass mailing. qmail/ezmlm is one such package which can use a mysql database if required. -- David Robley Temporary Kiwi!

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