John Nichel wrote:
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
Thanks to those who have replied so far, yes our main concern is the
smtp server falling over or dying. So to come back to John Nichel's answer:
John, have you done this personally and I assume the effects were
good?? IE everything ran smoothly?
thanks
Angelo
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