Sending bulk emails

[vigour]

I'm trying to send a lot of emails from my PHP script. I'm using PHPmailer. I tried to send 1000 emails but only managed to send about 600 of them. So my question for the forum is:

How do I send lots of emails? Are there different methods? I do not want to send one email with 1000 email addresses. I want to send 1000 unique emails.

[robert_w_ark]

I'm not sure how you want to do this, but here's a way to email people from a mysql database...

The key feature is set_time_limit() that way the script has enough time to complete the process..

here's the example:

<?php

set_time_limit(999999);

$title = "My TITLE!";
$msg = "Email Message.";
$headers = "From: [e-mail]\r\nReply-To: [e-mail]";

$dbh = mysql_connect("somewhere", "user", "pass");
mysql_select_db("database", $dbh);
$query = mysql_query("SELECT UNIQUE/DISTINCT email_address_column_name FROM somewhere") or die(mysql_error());
$i = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
  $i++;
  mail($row['email'], $title, $msg, $headers);
  echo "Message number $i sent.\n<br />\n";
}
echo "Mass Mailing Done.";

?>