Re: [PHP] Effecient mass mailings

2008-02-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:53 -0800, Jim Lucas wrote: If you were sending HTML formatted emails and included images for the layout, that would be fine. But a 2-5MB attachment? Why would want to send that as an attachment. Give them a link back to your website. If it is a private thing,

Re: [PHP] Effecient mass mailings

2008-02-04 Thread Richard Heyes
I've always personally hated receiving email with large attachments, preferring instead to get links to the content on the web. Plus, that cuts down on the bandwidth the server (as well as mailservers, gateways, et cetera) are responsible for handling, because the PDFs or other attachments

Re: [PHP] Effecient mass mailings

2008-02-04 Thread Jim Lucas
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I a currently re-writing a web app from ASP to PHP and have come to the part where the app sends mass mailings to their customer base. This has always been problematic for them with the existing setup and I am looking for the best approach. While I've setup mailings

Re: [PHP] Effecient mass mailings

2008-02-04 Thread Daniel Brown
On Feb 4, 2008 11:34 AM, Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have attachments, you could use one or more cheap remote servers and Bcc: the recipients. Or use the local mail gateway. Bcc:ing will cut down on the amount of the amount of actual data transferred to the mail server; you

Re: [PHP] Effecient mass mailings

2008-02-04 Thread Jason Pruim
) On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I a currently re-writing a web app from ASP to PHP and have come to the part where the app sends mass mailings to their customer base. This has always been problematic for them with the existing setup and I am looking for the best

Re: [PHP] Effecient mass mailings

2008-02-04 Thread Richard Heyes
I a currently re-writing a web app from ASP to PHP and have come to the part where the app sends mass mailings to their customer base. This has always been problematic for them with the existing setup and I am looking for the best approach. While I've setup mailings with PHP, never such mass

Re: [PHP] Effecient mass mailings

2008-02-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, February 4, 2008 10:22 am, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can someone give some pointers at how I may want to approach such mass mailings? Thanks in advance! Get rid of the attachments? :-) -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie