Posted by Rik on 03/05/07 09:25

Tim McGurk <nicetim33@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have to write a script that will send about 300 emails with an
> automatically generated report and text, and I am concerned about
> crashing
> the server with that many successive calls to mail()... Is that a
> reasonable
> concern, or am I being foolish?

Any normal server should be able to handle this. 300 isn't exactly 'mass'
mail compared to the real thing. If you have to sent thousands of emails
at once, then it's usually better to let a third party specialist handle
this.
--
Rik Wasmus

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