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PHP and email

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:16 pm
by riversr54
I have a large list of email addresses and have been given the task of writing a PHP program to sent an HTML email including small images. I created a web page on my server that seems to work just fine for a small number of email addresses, but when I try to send to the entire list, the web page times out before it finishes. I guess I have two questions, and keep in mind that I am relatively new to PHP.

Can I adjust the web server (Apache) so that it does not timeout as quickly and therefore give the web page time to complete it's work before the timeout?

Is there a better way to address this problem than writing PHP code in a web page? Is it possible to write a PHP program that runs outside the web server, like a .exe file on Windows?

I would really appreciate any advice.

riversr54

Re: PHP and email

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:58 pm
by shuhail
You can't send vast emails at a time.
you can send 100 emails and take 2 seconds break and start again. (but it is time consuming in case of very large amount of email.)
better to try bcc function.

Re: PHP and email

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:06 pm
by riversr54
Thanks for the information. Can you tell me a bit more about the bcc function? I'm currently useig PEAR Mail, is there a bcc function there?

Thanks,