Sending Newsletter from PHP

Sending many emails

[Majid]

Hi,

We have a site with about 50,000 members.

Now we want to send newsletters to each of our site members.

If we use the normal "mail" command in PHP, it will create a heavy load for the server so that after sending the email, because of the heavy traffic which gets created on the server, the email will either not be send or it can take up to one week till it gets send out.

Is there any better and easier procedure or method for sending these types of emails?

With best regards,

[jatar_k]

you could break it down and send it in chunks

run the script on a cron and send a chunk every 5 minutes, just make sure you give it enough time to finish before it starts again. If you did 100 every 5 minutes, you could have over 1000 per hour and be done in less than 2 days.

If you think this is going to keep getting larger then you could also just have a company manage it for you.

[joelgreen]

you may want to read this thread: how to send newsletter to 120.000 members [webmasterworld.com]

[henry0]

I have a client that will send 300K newsletter
and might purchase a license to do so from a newsletter mass mailer developer

I sent you some info check your mail.