Posted by Jim Moseby on 09/27/05 15:17

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis Gerasimov [mailto:denis.gerasimov@team-force.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:45 AM
> To: PHP General Mailing List
> Subject: [PHP] PHP CLI - possible for mass mailing?
>
>
> Hello List,
>
>
>
> We are working on a PHP project that implements mass mailing
> to a large
> number of its subscribers (expected 100,000-200,000 users;
> not spam mailing
> BTW). So I am wondering if it is possible to use PHP CLI
> binary for this
> purpose and if there are any problems with PHP in this case.
>
>
>
> I was said that using Perl script is more suitable for such
> task since PHP
> scripts have problems with sending large amount of mail.
>
> Is that true or not? Any success/failure stories?

While I don't handle nearly that volume, I routenely use the CLI binary to
mail a weekly newsletter to ~200 subscribers. I have never had any problem
with it.

JM

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