[PHP] sending to large mailing list

2001-07-16 Thread Adrian Teasdale
Hi I have some mailing list programming which we've used for quite some time. However, one of my clients now has 660 people on the list and we are getting a timeout error on the script and class. I'm using the Mime type class from Manuel Lemos I'd like to know how other people handle large mail

RE: [PHP] sending to large mailing list

2001-07-16 Thread Richard Heyes
> I have some mailing list programming which we've used for > quite some time. > However, one of my clients now has 660 people on the list and > we are getting > a timeout error on the script and class. set_time_limit(0); -- Richard Heyes "Passwords are like underwear: don't share them, hide

Re: [PHP] sending to large mailing list

2001-07-16 Thread Adrian Teasdale
Richard Thanks for this email. I have done that and used flush(); on the next page. It does seem to be taking a long time and I was wondering if people use other methods. For example, one of the scripts I have seen can use either "mail", "sendmail", or "smtp" as options. I was wondering if goi

Re: [PHP] sending to large mailing list

2001-07-16 Thread Mark Charette
From: "Adrian Teasdale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >The idea is that this database will > expand to quite a few thousand in the near future and I want to know that > we'll be able to handle it :) The problem is that I "cleverly" added the > feature that each email has a salutation which personalized to

Re: [PHP] sending to large mailing list

2001-07-16 Thread Adrian Teasdale
OK Mark Thanks for your reply. I'll have a look at this and see if I can use PHP for managing the list of people, but use another app to send Thanks again ade > Honestly speaking, when mailing lists grow to (somewhere past trivial) > numbers that are large it's best to use software that is de