Thanks Jon and Stephen. Some good ideas to look into. I like the idea of
changing the timeout, but not sure if the host will! Putting myself last on
the list makes a lot of sense.
I think I will have to do the test and send myself 1000 emails (yikes!) and
see what happens.
steve
Steve (time
On 19 Jun 2003 at 9:54, Steve Miller wrote:
Hi all,
I have written a small php script which pulls email addresses (about 1000)
from my online db and sends a small html email newsletter (this is not spam
but a weekly member update). Normally, I would not worry about having enough
time to
Hi R'twick,
Why not put all email addresses in Cc field
and send it at once?
Unfortunately many mail servers will dump any message with excessive CCs or
BCCs, as they're mostly spam. I have no idea what thresholds people are
using for excessive, but I would have guessed at something more like
Dedicated mail list is worth looking into, but I thought this would be
easier (might not). As for the cc field, I didn't want a whole list of
recipients to show up on each email.
steve
Why not put all email addresses in Cc field and send it at once? Unless you
are
creating member
Jon Haworth bespaketh on Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:49 AM:
Hi R'twick,
Why not put all email addresses in Cc field
and send it at once?
Unfortunately many mail servers will dump any message with excessive
CCs or BCCs, as they're mostly spam. I have no idea what thresholds
people are
Steve Miller wrote:
Hi all,
I have written a small php script which pulls email addresses (about 1000)
from my online db and sends a small html email newsletter (this is not spam
but a weekly member update). Normally, I would not worry about having enough
time to loop 1000 times through a section
Thanks for the comments John.
First, you should cut down on how many times you have to touch sendmail.
Instead of sending one email for each user, why not throw 10 users
into the bcc field (keep that number low to stay below SPAM software,
and in bcc, it hides the email addresses from the
On 19 Jun 2003 at 11:15, Steve Miller wrote:
Thanks for the comments John.
First, you should cut down on how many times you have to touch sendmail.
Instead of sending one email for each user, why not throw 10 users
into the bcc field (keep that number low to stay below SPAM
oops, guilty of not reading!
thanks
From: R'twick Niceorgaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:39:18 -0400
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Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: php and sendmail
On 19 Jun 2003 at 11:15, Steve Miller wrote:
Thanks for the comments John
I'm joining this half way through - so
bear with me if this is not what you want.
Using BCC is not only more than likedly to
get caught by a spam filter, as R'twick rightly
pointed out, but more importantly it is plain
Unprofessional!
If you want results from your email marketing
(consider every
To add to my earlier post:
If I receive an email that says Undisclosed
Recipients or someone else's email address
in the To field, and my address is nowhere
to be found, I know that I'm dealing with,
1. A spammer
2. A rank newbie
3. Someone who just doesn't care enough to
learn about what they're
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