Hi
does anyone know whats better/uses less resource etc:
If I run a loop to send a 1000 emails, should I use php's mail fucntions
or send directly to the servers smtp server.
clive
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:10:02PM +0200, Clive wrote:
does anyone know whats better/uses less resource etc:
If I run a loop to send a 1000 emails, should I use php's mail fucntions
or send directly to the servers smtp server.
What do you mean by send directly? Are you thinking of sending
Hi Clive,
Monday, October 31, 2005, 10:10:02 AM, you wrote:
does anyone know whats better/uses less resource etc:
If I run a loop to send a 1000 emails, should I use php's mail fucntions
or send directly to the servers smtp server.
Use PEAR Mail Queue.
Cheers,
Rich
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Clive wrote:
Hi
does anyone know whats better/uses less resource etc:
If I run a loop to send a 1000 emails, should I use php's mail fucntions
or send directly to the servers smtp server.
Depends on your setup. If you're on Linux/Unix you could use the mail()
function along with the -odq
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:38:09PM +0200, Clive wrote:
what I mean is: im using a class called phpmailer and it has the option
to sent to a smtp server, I suppose this means that they do open a
socket to the smtp server.
All that means is that you can specify an external SMTP server (e.g.
On 31 Oct 2005, at 10:34, Richard Heyes wrote:
Depends on your setup. If you're on Linux/Unix you could use the
mail() function along with the -odq option to Sendmail/Postfix/
Exim etc (fifth argument to the mail() function) which will dump
all the mails into the MTAs queue. After this, the
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:56:01PM +0200, Clive wrote:
Thanks I actually want to send 24 000 emails with 2 meg attachments.
Oh. You definitely don't want to be using an external SMTP server if you
can help it then, and you should really be splitting those up into
chunks (no more than 1,000 at a
On Mon, October 31, 2005 4:10 am, Clive wrote:
does anyone know whats better/uses less resource etc:
If I run a loop to send a 1000 emails, should I use php's mail
fucntions
or send directly to the servers smtp server.
SMTP
PHP's mail() function was never designed for high-volume email.
It
On Mon, October 31, 2005 5:22 am, Paul Waring wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:56:01PM +0200, Clive wrote:
Thanks I actually want to send 24 000 emails with 2 meg attachments.
Woof.
mail() is DEFINITELY the wrong answer!
Firing up an SMTP connection and spewing 24,000 emails with 2 meg
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