Hello, on 10/17/2009 02:41 AM Brian Hazelton said the following: > I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent > out in time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and > right now we have 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can > scale well regardless of the number of subscribers. Right now I use > mysql to store the email and use phpmailer in a loop to send an email to > each of the emails in the db, it is already slow with just 400(takes > around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). Has anyone built a > broadcast email script and willing to help me? I use the MIME message mailer class which has optimizations specifically for sending messages to many recipients. Take a look at the test_personalized_bulk_mail.php example script. Also keep in mind that for sending many messages, queueing messages in an SMTP server is the slowest method of all. Read this article for more details: http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/package/14/post/1-Sending-messages-to-many-recipients-via-SMTP-in-PHP.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Find and post PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
