simple mailing list - fundamental problem?

[richblend]

Hey. ive made a simplke mailing list for my band. It just works like this...

emails are stored in MySQL database, script loops through them all and uses the mail() function to mail each one as it goes through the loop.

makes sense to me, but apparently half the mailinglist arent getting emails. is there a certain pause that has to occur between calls to the mail() function (like its bombarding the mail server too quickyl type thing...)

Cheers for any help.

[PHPGuru2]

Try sleep(1) right after mail() function is called (This will pause the script for one second.) It may help.

[richblend]

cheers, but wont that make the script exceed the maximum execution time if i got more than just a few people on teh list?

[Weedpacket]

I'm not aware of any such need for sleeping. If you're sending multiple mails at once, then mail() is a pretty inefficent way of doing it (as noted many times in these forums). There are SMTP classes around (Googling will turn them up) that will allow communication with the mailserver directly, and it would make sense to use one of those.