Just don't use PHP for sending the mail like that. It's better to have the mailserver run the list management. Then you only send one message to the server, and its distribution list system handles the delivery of all the messages.
Depending on the mailserver, your PHP would then only have to need to deal with sending corrections for the dist list. All mailservers are designed to handle massive mail loads like that. A HTTP server with PHP definitely ain't. Nomatter what kind of mail actions you do, you should always try to keep them away from the HTTP and other webservice servers. HTTP management is alot more complex than mail handling, since the server has to deal with serving files while processing requests. A mail server's job is usually done by just trotting through the message from end to end ... which uses far less resources... By using the mail listserver method, you also free up the HTTP server for other tasks. It only has to generate the message once, and not n times... HTH Rene On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:20:39 -0500, Jason Jacobs wrote about "[PHP] creating mailing list in php?" what the universal translator turned into this: >Hi y'all. I am working on a mail list app that's pretty simple...don't need to let >users post, only admins, and it's very straightforward. I tested it out with mail() >on 50 addresses, and it took 78 seconds plus massive server load. Part of that may >be the mail scanner we have, but I also know mail() opens a socket each time, and >that's gonna make it pretty slow too. Does anyone have any suggestions, or even >examples of what you've done for this type of thing? The load is about 3000 emails >daily, all at once (the client emails out daily specials to their clients), which at >this rate would take over an hour to send. > >Also, and I might just not be paying attention, but is there any word about this list >going phpBB or the like sometime soon? That would be great. > >Thanks again for your help. > >-jason -- Rene Brehmer This message was written on 100% recycled spam. Come see! My brand new site is now online! http://www.metalbunny.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
