Re: Issues with Mail (SMTP) and Mime_Mail
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Sat, 03 Aug 2002 08:25:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Issues with Mail (SMTP) and Mime_Mail | ||
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On Sat Aug 03, 2002 at 01:3920AM -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> >The problem is a designing one. PHP was never create for such tasks.
> >Maybe you can use Majordomo or elzm for this. If you really want to use
> >PHP to do that set up a cron job which calls the script as often as nec.
> >The script itself should send max. 20 mails per call.
>
> This is a great misconception of many people that have no clue on how to
> do it efficiently.
>
> There is no problem in using PHP to send out newsletters to many
> thousands of subscribers.
Following this argumentation, one can assume that the development of
ezmlm or Majordomo never made sense, since PHP can do the same job in
the same efficient, secure and reliable way, no? ;-)
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