mail()

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Would it be wise to send 11000+ emails with mail()? I mean in a loop for example.

[jeremuck]

There is a default execution timelimit of 30 seconds. That's a lot of emails...

I'd make sure I had a log file or something to tell me what was going on. I'd want to know about errors and whatnot.

I'd make sure that if an error happened, I could still pick up where I left off in a future attempt.

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someone suggested I bcc them all. But the thing with that is it's not very personal. not that it's personal sending the same email to 11000 people. 🙂

[jeremuck]

I would go ahead with the loop, because you can "personalize" them.

But I would make sure I had mechanisms that would allow me to recover if something happened...

That big of a loop... you never know what will happen.

For example, I wouldnt' store it in memory and just loop through an array.

I'd probably have a database or a text file or something. Have it delete the entry once it was set. Have another file telling where it stopped, what it's done... output everything.

Personally I think it's better than BCC.

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Thanks for the advice. I'll do that.

[zenon]

SPAM! :mad:

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Newsletter.

If I believed in spam I'd sell the email addresses I have.