[PHP] Mass Mailing with PHP & MySQL

[Tim Thorburn]

Hi,

I'm working on a mailing solution for a client. His site collects email address from a 'Send this site to a friend' page (user enters their email address and up to 10 other addresses - a message is then sent to the 10 addresses from the users own email address). The addresses are then stored in a MySQL database - a column for the users email address, and then a column each for the additional 10 addresses.

Now the client would like to have the ability to send an email to all addresses collected at once - to inform the addresses of a sale, etc. I'm guessing for this to be done, I'd have to select all the DISTINCT email addresses from the 11 columns (users email, and the 10 addresses), then use a loop to send the mail out.

I had planned on using PHP's mail() function - does anyone know of any limitations imposed by this method? Normally, I'd contact the ISP and ask them directly, however it's been several weeks since they've answered the phones.

Does anyone have any other/better options that I should pursue? This will be my first mass mailing typed job so I'm not really sure where to begin or if I'm on the right path at all.

Thanks
-Tim



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