Sending mail to 100,000 users

[bestpricehost]

Has anyone tried to send about 100,000 mails using mail() in a php page and then calling this page from cron tab at lynx-dumb?

Will this time out or work?

If anyone has used it, then please tell.

Thanks

[van__]

Spams bad man.

[[deleted]]

100k users... don't you mean 100k innocent internet users who are about to get spammed?

[bestpricehost]

I would like to clarify that this is not a spam. I have an opt in email list of these email users. Now can anyone answer. Please!

[Anon]

Should you find a solution for sending large numbers of email using mail & PHP, could you share this with me as I want to be able to send emails to my growing customer list which should top 20k addresses by years end !

Peter

[bestpricehost]

Sure!

[Anon]

I was sending about 50.000 emails successfully using sleep(1) after each mail.

Bye,
Danny

[bestpricehost]

Thanks for the idea but I read that we need to use flush() with sleep(). Can you give me teh code snippet how did you use it or how many seconds did you use the sleep().

thanks

[[deleted]]

"Thanks for the idea but I read that we need to use flush() with sleep()."

only if you plan to keep access the script through a browser and keep that window open while the script runs.

100k times 1 second is 100k seconds=1666 minutes=27 hours, not a good idea

I suggest you get yourself some decent mailinglist software (use google to find some)

PHP was not designed to do this, and mail() is too slow. If you're bent on doing this with PHP (and I can't think of any reason) then talk directly to the mailserver, search the code-snippets section for an smtp class.

[edraynham]

I've recently had the same problem but found a solution by using a PHP front end and a PERL arse.....

Create a table (name: mail_pending, columns: id,to,content,subject) and use a PHP front end to insert the mail messages into this table.....

Then, create a perl script that will select the messages from the table one-by-one until there are no rows left, use the perl sendmail function to send the messages...

Run this perl script from cron every 5 minutes. If there is no pending messages then the process will die, otherwises the process will build up and work together until all messages are sent.... (more processes....faster mailing!)

Hope i've helped....

Ed.

[van__]

HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

Man oh man...
I love this thread.
I nominate this to be saved for posterity.

I have exactly what you want.
And yes, it can send out MILLIONS of emails per day.

No cron job, no web panel to make it happen,
no nothing but upload a text or html template and presto!

And am I gonna let you know how to do it?

I think not.
Why? Because I don't like spam, I don't let those who use my service spam, and I refuse to share that kind of information to those I do not know.

JUST SAY NO TO SPAM!

[neo644]

your mean

[Anon]

No I think its called an Ass. Hey Van you actually are going against the whole logical reasoning PHP was built. Remember the personal developer who wrote the language? Right @!#$ this is an OPEN SOURCE language...which means that the information should be distributed freely. If you want to go play these childish petty games go to ASP! Microsoft loves you. Hey Van spam this address! [e-mail]! Thanks!
Zig

"I know what I know...and what I don't I make up" -Chad R. Smith

[Anon]

Dear Everybody

I had no intensions of making this message thread a Wrestling Ring. I thanks all of you for your replies and some of you for backing me up.

Thanks again everybody!

phpMax