how strong is mail() ?

[Anon]

Hi all,

I wanna create a script that is able to send out a big email numbers (+300k) stored in mysql

I have read documentation about mail() function and I dont think this function will be able to manage this.

could anyone give me some tips to make it works?

thanks

[tasistro]

mail will do the trick for plain text mails. Otherwise you will have to encapsulate it in some class which will handle MIME and create appropriate headers. BTW our main issue when sending many emails 5000+ with mail was script timeout. So basically we use javascript to refresh the page and each page "show" recuests the sending of a lesser amount of emails 500 or so.

Saludos
Gerardo

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I'd like to see you try to send 100 mails using mail() :-)

mail() is a crappy function, way too slow for sending sh*tloads of spam.

Either use sockets to talk to the malserver directly, or use a bulkmailer program.