how to use MAIL() for a newslist?

[Anon]

hey!

we still didnt solve the problem. if i am mailing 50 people in my php script it takes 60 seconds (using mail() function). someone suggested to use ` to put the job into background, other said exec() will do it but the truth is neither of those two really works.

so, is there a way to send 500 emails from one php script really FAST? otherwise mail() would only be useful for sending 5 emails at a time. strange function...

Matjaz

[Anon]

Hi,

You could of course open a socket to your SMTP-server and talk to it directly. If it is a mailing list, you are actually only sending one email with 500 recipients. See bottom of http://px.sklar.com/code-pretty.html?code_id=390 for a description of how this is done. I guess you would need to add a bcc-field so each recipient won't get the names of the other 499.

Johan