RE: [PHP-WIN] mail to too many users

A byte per character. -----Original Message----- From: Mostafa Al-Mallawani [mailto:mostof@aucegypt.edu] Sent: 29 January 2002 05:43 To: 'Angie Tollerson'; jimphp@bend.com; php-windows@lists.php.net 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