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Mail() 1000+ people problem

Mail() 1000+ people problem

nightscream	5 Nov, 2009 - 08:28 AM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 4 Dec, 2008 Posts: 113 Thanked: 2 times My Contributions	My client site has over 4000 members and he likes to have a mail function that mails all the users but the problem is it takes to long to send all the mails and after 360sec php gives error it taking to long but how can I make it work?
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jaql	RE: Mail() 1000+ People Problem 5 Nov, 2009 - 01:04 PM Post #2
D.I.C Head Joined: 19 Oct, 2009 Posts: 59 Thanked: 5 times My Contributions	Add this to the top of the script: CODE set_time_limit(0); or maybe take a look at what the php doc says about the mail() function: QUOTE Note: It is worth noting that the mail() function is not suitable for larger volumes of email in a loop. This function opens and closes an SMTP socket for each email, which is not very efficient. For the sending of large amounts of email, see the » PEAR::Mail, and » PEAR::Mail_Queue packages. This post has been edited by jaql: 5 Nov, 2009 - 01:07 PM
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RudiVisser	RE: Mail() 1000+ People Problem 5 Nov, 2009 - 01:38 PM Post #3
.. does not guess solutions Joined: 5 Jun, 2009 Posts: 1,890 Thanked: 139 times Dream Kudos: 125 Expert In: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, C# My Contributions	If you really must use mail(), make sure that it is in a loop and sends between 30-100 emails per batch. Since your member count is pretty low, you should get it done in just a few loops. Bare in mind that the loops should be after a page refresh.. So have a "Continue" link after it's done the first loop, then that link refreshes the page to continue with the next batch. How you handle this is completely down to you, a file/DB with remaining recipients could be a good method.
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nightscream	RE: Mail() 1000+ People Problem 5 Nov, 2009 - 04:04 PM Post #4
D.I.C Head Joined: 4 Dec, 2008 Posts: 113 Thanked: 2 times My Contributions	sounds good, something like refreshing the page. So the pear mail option should be able to do this in one time?
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RudiVisser	RE: Mail() 1000+ People Problem 5 Nov, 2009 - 04:06 PM Post #5
.. does not guess solutions Joined: 5 Jun, 2009 Posts: 1,890 Thanked: 139 times Dream Kudos: 125 Expert In: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, C# My Contributions	Yes, Mail_Queue sets up emails to send in the background using a cron script that will process a few messages every minute or so. It's effectively the same as calling mail and refreshing the page every now and then, but it doesn't require the browser to refresh obviously.
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Jono20201	RE: Mail() 1000+ People Problem 6 Nov, 2009 - 02:55 PM Post #6
D.I.C Head Joined: 7 Jul, 2009 Posts: 65 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	I suppose if you wanted to be really fancy you could use ajax This post has been edited by Jono20201: 6 Nov, 2009 - 02:56 PM
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nightscream	RE: Mail() 1000+ People Problem 8 Nov, 2009 - 12:10 PM Post #7
D.I.C Head Joined: 4 Dec, 2008 Posts: 113 Thanked: 2 times My Contributions	yeah you're right I could use ajax but I don't really know that, not that much time to learn atm but I probably use the refresh thing. Thank you!! This post has been edited by nightscream: 8 Nov, 2009 - 12:11 PM
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