Angelo Zanetti wrote:
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?
I use some code just like that at least once a month to send out a
newsletter for a site I run, and it works fine. I'm only sending out
appx 1400 emails though, so I can afford to let it sleep for a longer
period of time. You can probably go lower on the sleep time, but it all
depends on your setup.
A better solution, if you have access to it and your mail server
supports it, is to just inject the whole thing...that way you're not
making a SMTP connection each time.
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John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
jnichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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