Posted by Good Man on 10/12/46 11:38

noone <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in
news:7JYCf.15119$_S7.8945@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com:

> again, use the right tool for the job at hand. While PHP can "talk"
> to an smtp server, I do not believe it is the right tool for the job.
> Kind-of like using a spoon to shovel the driveway. While it can do
> it, is it the right tool for the job. If it were one or two emails at
> the click of the mouse - fine, in fact I use phpmailer to do some
> things for me. But to send 50+ emails - it is the wrong tool.

i do not profess to be any sort of expert, but i use PHP to send out 3000+
emails daily to a list of subscribers (via a cron job). I get all the
addresses at once from MySQL, put them into an array, disconnect from the
database, then use a 'mass e-mail' class to compose individual emails and
send them. I just can't see any difference between PHP writing an email
and handing it off to sendmail vs having outlook/thunderbird/etc writing an
email and handing it off to sendmail.

aren't PHP discussions regarding this type of online application
irrelevant? after all, PHP has no trouble creating thousands of strings,
arrays, text files, emails, zip files, etc. all very quickly. If there's
anything to worry about, i'd figure it's the load capabilities of
'sendmail' or whatever your mail server is.

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