How to send mass email from php

raj74

hi guys,

   I am planning to send newsletter for more than 20,000 subscribers at 2. AM mid night. how can i do it. Is there any free script  available in the net?  any help?

thanks in advance

regards
raj

piersk

Have these people all said that they want to receive this email?

andymoo

don't know about you but i can smell a foul tasting pork based tinned meat

if you want to send an email to thousands of people who don't want to get it the best way is to do it like this:

have all the email addresses one per line in a file, set message params and then run some php black magick on it

$list = "/home/whereever/the/list/is.whatever";
$subject = "mmm porky tinned meat";
$message = "message you want to send";
$from = "junk@mail.com";
unlink($list);
echo "Done!";

that's my little contribution

piersk

Originally posted by andymoo
don't know about you but i can smell a foul tasting pork based tinned meat

Hence why I was waiting for him to answer my question before helping him...

Doh!!

Napster

I have done something like this before I used a for loop, you should go like

if ($time == $certain_time) {

for () {

$select info from database for this user

mail();

}

}

raj74

YEs, these people all said that they want to receive this email.

drew010

you can just loop thru the list file and use the mail() command to send the emails. just a few heads up things when sending out so many. be sure to alter the scripts max_execution_time to 0 for unlimited, and if you can somehow tell the script to read the first few hundred emails, send out the messages to them, and then forward to a new instance and pick up where it left off, because ive seen on some servers, after its been sending a while, the browser stops receiving data, and the script quits and you have no idea where it left off. maybe consider writing it for the command line as opposed to the browser

raj74

hi,

can i get any sample code?

thanks in advance.

regards
raj