RE: [PHP] Sending alots of mail

2001-08-16 Thread Tyrone Mills
L PROTECTED]> To: Jimmy Bäckström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Sending alots of mail I did something like that once. Mine sent only about a few hundred at a time and it was still quite a strain on the system becaus

Re: [PHP] Sending alots of mail

2001-08-16 Thread Jome
I have done this, and it's not a bad idea as long as you aren't sending spam. It's rather easy to do this, just do a mysql_query() from the database where you select the subscribers field and then do a while which sends out emails via the mail()-function. You may experience problem with max ex

Re: [PHP] Sending alots of mail

2001-08-16 Thread Daniel Adams
I did something like that once. Mine sent only about a few hundred at a time and it was still quite a strain on the system because you have a TON of sendmail processes started and running at the same time. Just be aware of the possible system load. - dan On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Jimmy Bäckst

Re: [PHP] Sending alots of mail

2001-08-16 Thread Tyler Longren
This was just discussed last week. Here's how: $connection = mysql_connect("host","user","pass"); $db = mysql_select_db("db_name", $connection); $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY email ASC"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) { $email = $row["email"]; $nam