mail() question

[sks1024]

I have an html page that a user fills out there name, subject, and a message and posts it to a script that reads email address from a db and then in a while loop sends out the email message to each address. The email list consists of about 300 emails now but is growing rapidly.

The question is how many emails can this mail() function handle sending out at one time? Should I break it up some how, or is there a better way to do this.

Thanks

[trex005]

It sounds to me that you are mailing each separately? (during your while?) if this is the case, you should not have any issues. Generally this is preferred when you are only sending out 300 because then you can address each separately, and do not have to use the BCC method to hide all recipients from each other (this is not only good for security, but can be considered outright rude if you do not do)

God Bless,
Travis Harris

[Weedpacket]

You could have problems with the script timing out; also, sending multiple mails with mail() is extremely inefficient (create a new connection to the SMTP server, send one email, destroy the connection, create a new connection, send one email, destroy the connction...)
There are a number of SMTP classes floating around the net for PHP that will allow much more efficient use of resources (create a new connection to the SMTP server, send a whole pile of emails, close the connection).