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Posted by Richard Lynch on 03/04/05 20:46
Reinhart Viane wrote:
> I use a while loop and the mail function to send email to all subscribers
> of
> a site. This works fine for 50 users but I know there can be some problems
> when you do it like this for 1000 users.
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> Eg. Limit of page execution is exceeded and even server crashes because
> each
> time a mail is send a socket is opened and closed again.
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> Now I have found some functions (fsock_open of an SMTP service) and some
> pear classes
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> Unfortunately I have a windows server hosting that site.
>
> Anyone knows how to do mass email on a windows server?
I believe you can install, errr, MS Exchange???, to get an SMTP server.
You could also find a webhost somewhere that provides SMTP service, for a
fee.
You may want to consider sending ONE email with Bcc: but the spam filters
may count that against you in their filtering, and some recipients won't
get it unless the whitelist you first. [sigh]
There are also some nice mail-sending classes at http://phpclasses.org
which I believe have documentation specifically about this topic.
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