mail function to multiple addresses

[Anon]

hey!

i am using mail() function to send emails to all subscribers (let's say its about weekly horoscope).

i noticed that php script takes around 40 seconds to send all 40 emails. obviously this mail() function doesnt just send emails to smtp server (what i expected) for later processing but it tries to verify each address or what?

is there any better way to do it like this:

while there_are_records_in_database {
--mail(to,subject,body)
}

another option is to put more recipients under "to" but this is not what i want - i dont want to show all of them in each email.

how can i make my newslist function faster that it wont fail when there will be 100 subscribers?

Matjaz /kesl

[Anon]

We've just spent a month busy coding just that, and with lots of trial and error we finally got there: A web interface to a mailer that will mail different groups or all the users in a mysql database.(with attachments too!)
Basically I used the class at:
http://renoir.vill.edu/~ylee/mailfile.html
and modified it so that optionally one can mail without sending attachments(if you'd like the modification, please mail me).
The selection on the database is done via the primary key (plain vanilla) and then by way of looping through the whole selection, I mail the email address returned with the class method above.

There is also a class at phpwizard.com, which I also had to modify, but seemed to be slower and more buggy than the one above.

It uses the standard sendmail on the server and works like a dream.