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Posted by eastcoastguyz on 07/18/06 02:48
Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on 07/15/2006 01:07 AM eastcoastguyz said the following:
> > I have a client who's web site needs to send out opt-in e-mail. I
> > contacted the web hosting service who they intend to host this with and
> > they have a limit of 500 e-mail messages sent per hour. I suspect most
> > web hosting services have a limit on this, so I thought about how to
> > address this. The e-mail being sent out would be personalized, and
> > there could be other processes from this same web site sending out
> > e-mail to a list too. So I thought about developing a mail que system
> > written in PHP to help with this.
> >
> > If this already exists, please point me to it. If there is a better way
> > to do this, I would be interested to hear it. Thanks!
>
> When you use the mail function in Linux, it uses sendmail or compatible.
> In Linux, all MTA are compatible with sendmail. Sendmail is already a
> queue system. There does not seem to be much point in duplicating a
> sendmail function that it already does better than PHP could. PHP will
> certainly will not override your ISP limits.
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Manuel Lemos
>
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Thanks for your post. I didn't want to create my own mail queue system
in an attempt to override the limits by the ISP, but to make sure I
didn't exceed them.
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