Posted by John Nichel on 11/23/05 16:49

Angelo Zanetti wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a dedicated server in the states.
>
> I need to send about 8000 emails (once off). There pretty small +- 5KB.
>
>
> so I want to write a php script and run it from the command line in the
> background. I was thinking of sending 50 emails then waiting 90 seconds
> then sending again.
>
> Or
>
> the same script gets run by cron every 90 seconds and just sends 50 emails.
>
> What do you recommend?

I would send them one at a time. While the script itself could probably
handle sending 50+ at a time, you have to think about the mail server.
Say you have the 8000 emails in an array....

#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?php

// Stuff to get email addresses
// and create message

foreach ( $emails as $email ) {
mail ( $email, $subject, $message, $headers );
sleep ( 10 );
}

?>

YMMV

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John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
jnichel@dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.com

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