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Posted by d on 10/12/54 11:38
"noone" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> windandwaves wrote:
>> Hi Folk
>>
>> I want to send out a basic newsletter from my MySql database of contacts.
>>
>> Does anyone know a nice and simple bit of PHP that allows me to do this?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>> - Nicolas
>
> for server processing, I would say that PHP is the wrong tool for this
> job.
> 1) time for processing email to nnnnnnnn addresses.
> 2) time for processing email to nnnnnnnn addresses.
> .....
>
> What you probably would want to do - and there are security issues to deal
> with.. is have your PHP "admin tool" kick off a job that does this from
> the server...
>
> There are a number of mailing-list/list-servers out there that would
> handle this much better and run on many different platforms. (Linux,
> windows, UNIX, etc...)
All those tools would do is exactly the same that PHP would do - talk to an
SMTP server and send out emails. Just have your PHP script respect the
limitations of your average SMTP server (as in not fire off emails to every
address at once), and you'll be fine. Learn about mime headers (especially
multipart/alternative if you want to send html and don't know who will
accept it), and you can do it all in PHP without much fuss.
> Michael Austin.
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