Mass Mailing in PHP

[zeez]

Hello

What is the best way to perform mass mailing in PHP?
I don't want to loop at every email and send the message, yet not all users will receive exactly the same message...

regards

[Darren884]

Make an email queue system and then send a certain amount per minute.

[cranial-bore]

If you want to send different messages you'll need to send different messages
There's no way to make a single call to mail() but have different content to different recipients. It doesn't matter how much the body varies by.

If your sending large volumes you probably need either to use sleep or cron jobs (or both) to throttle the sending. Especially if you're on a shared server.

Swift Mailer is good, it might be of use to you.

[Darren884]

If you want to send different messages you'll need to send different messages
There's no way to make a single call to mail() but have different content to different recipients. It doesn't matter how much the body varies by.

If your sending large volumes you probably need either to use sleep or cron jobs (or both) to throttle the sending. Especially if you're on a shared server.

Swift Mailer is good, it might be of use to you.

Wow I didn't even think of sleep. Thats definitely a possibility if you don't have cron jobs.

[jtjohn632]

You can setup a cron job for doing this.
In the task you can setup the number of mail to send.

If you can't setup cron. There is some web site who can give you this service by dowloading a page at regular time.

[zeez]

Make an email queue system and then send a certain amount per minute.

Alright, but that requires crone jobs right?

What if I don't want to use crone jobs?

[jtjohn632]

You can use a script which will download himself via curl.
Normally recursion don't stop...