[PHP] Re: Sending out large amounts of email

2009-03-05 Thread Nathan Rixham
Brian Hansen wrote: Hi. Our company is merging with another company and newsletter now needs to go out to more than 100.000 people. Before it was only a couple of thousands. I have developed a mail queue using a database and a cronjob, but I am not in doubt as to what particular solution I need

[PHP] Re: Sending out large amounts of email

2009-03-05 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 03/05/2009 08:20 PM Brian Hansen said the following: > Everywhere on the net I read that sending out mail using PHP mail() is slow > and it is a bad idea and that using some mail class with SMTP directly would > be much better. I have tested the run my tests with Postfix as the SMTP. Th

[PHP] Re: Sending out large amounts of email

2009-03-06 Thread Brian Hansen
Thank you all for some great answer and insights. Special thanks to Chris, Nathan and Manuel for very valuable pointers and sharing of information and experience. For those interested in the subject.. We have our own servers, and since we want to be in control of the situation ourselves we are n

Re: [PHP] Re: Sending out large amounts of email

2009-03-07 Thread Richard Heyes
> thanks a thousand A thousand? That's a bit stingy - usually it's "thanks a million"... :-) -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Canvas graphing for Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.net (Updated February 28th) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: ht

Re: [PHP] Re: Sending out large amounts of email

2009-03-07 Thread 9el
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Richard Heyes wrote: > > thanks a thousand > > A thousand? That's a bit stingy - usually it's "thanks a million"... In this particular case I guess thousand is a larger value than million :D takes a longer to type > > > :-) > > -- > Richard Heyes > > HTML5 Can