Re: mail to too many users

As big as strlen() says it is.... ***************************************************** Ignatius Teo Project Manager, Internet Access Services Information Technology and Telecommunication Services Corporate Services Southern Cross University PO Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480 Ph: +61 2 6620-3221 Fax: +61 2 6620-3033 Email: iteo@scu.edu.au | eyrie@altavista.net URL: http://www.scu.edu.au/admin/is/it/ ***************************************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mostafa Al-Mallawani" <mostof@aucegypt.edu> To: "'Angie Tollerson'" <Tollerson@alliancetechnologies.net>; <jimphp@bend.com>; <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] mail to too many users > How big would a string of 19000 email addresses be? Can anyone > estimate? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Angie Tollerson [mailto:Tollerson@alliancetechnologies.net] > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:55 PM > To: mostof@aucegypt.edu; jimphp@bend.com; php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] mail to too many users > > Last I heard BCC and CC wasn't working for Windows...it would only send > to the first person in the list. That's what it did for me 6 months > ago..has that been fixed? > Thanks! > Angie > > >>> "Jim Lucas [php]" <jimphp@bend.com> 01/28/02 03:47PM >>> > with php's mail() funciton you can send to multiple recipents via the > headers. just build the headers so it will BCC to everybody at once. > one word of caution, you can only have a header that is 5kb or > smaller. > otherwise php will start truncating the header. Found that out the > hard > way. > > so, just build a big header and send out 300 at a time. > > Jim Lucas > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mostafa Al-Mallawani" <mostof@aucegypt.edu> > To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:41 AM > Subject: [PHP-WIN] mail to too many users > > > > I need to send an email to 19000 users using a script, any > suggestions. > > Looping on a result set using the mail function would kill the > server. > > I know it can be done using a mailing list module but I'm running a > > windows machine with IIS, what's the best thing for this? Thanks. > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >