You should sort the addressees by domain first too, to give the MTA
a chance to opimize your spam delivery.

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:44:06PM +0000, Shane Wright wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I find that the best way to do it is with a script having a long/unlimited 
> timeout, but limiting it to only a few hundred mails per execution in the SQL 
> '... LIMIT 500'.
> 
> IMO better this way than a short-timeout script - sending one email can 
> sometimes take ages (long DNS lookup, slow connection to the host, etc...)
> 
> Shane
> 
> 
> On Friday 02 November 2001 4:18 pm, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote:
> > Interesting that this should come up. The company I work for needs to send
> > out an e-mail to 95k of their subscribers. Now, this is the first time in 2
> > years, so you can imagine that we'll be getting 94k of bounced e-mail
> > addresses. So I'm writing a script that will handle sending out the e-mails
> > and handling incoming bounced e-mail addresses. In any case, I would think
> > that my PHP script would time out before sending 95k e-mails. I know it has
> > timed out at 30 seconds before, but I can't remember if the faulty script
> > had an endless loop for 30 seconds or if there was any data getting sent or
> > received in that time. Anyone know beforehand whether I will get a timeout
> > with sending these e-mails, and if so, how to work around it?
> >
> > - Jonathan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Russ Michell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:20 AM
> > To: Cami
> > Cc: PHP DB list
> > Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] sending bulk emails
> >
> > > Does anybody know how to send bulk emails using php?
> >
> > Don't do it!!
> >
> > But of you must - I guess you could build an array containing email
> > addresses, names, etc - taken
> > from form input or a database or whatever and then loop the arrays mailing
> > people...
> >
> > $mail = "mail(";
> > for($i=0; $i<$email_array_name;$i++( {
> >     $mail .= "$values,";
> >     }
> > $mail .= "\"$subject\",\"$body\",\"From: $from\");";
> >
> > Something like that anyway (that's just off the top of my head)
> > Regards.
> >
> > Russ
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:26:22 -0000 Cami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > Does anybody know how to send bulk emails using php?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Cami
> > >
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