At 06:33 PM 1/1/03 -0500, Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
Personally I simply get the e-mail addresses spit out to me from the
database and then I input them into a application made just for bulk mailingt.
You can also easily write a quick perl or shell script to send it out from
a file of names
Happy New Year everyone!
Is the PHP mail() command robust enough to use in a little mailing list app?
The app will basically send an HTML or Text e-mail to the member database of
about 6,000 people. I'm using RedHat Linux 7.2 with PHP 4.2.2, by the way.
I'm concerned I'll bog down my server if I
Check the archives... mail() tends to break pretty quickly... sometimes on
less than 100 personalised emails... The issue ISN'T mail() itself, but
things like server timeouts, script timeouts, etc etc. The issue also isn't
really HTML mail, but more the fact that each email has to be sent to the
Personally I simply get the e-mail addresses spit out to me from the database and then
I input them into a application made just for bulk mailingt.
You can also easily write a quick perl or shell script to send it out from a file of
names and this way you can nice the process so as not to bog
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