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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers bulk mail as a background job Post 12405 by t_zone on Friday 28th of December 2001 10:32:27 PM
Old 12-28-2001
hello

although that most ppl ( including myself) are against SPAM but I am sure that you are not SPAMing ppl

I faced the same situation few weeks ago and my solution was simple , while you are going to BCC all the recipent ....

use PERL ,, it is simple to write a shell script in PERL to send emails , use PHP to store the message in DB or whatever you want ( i.e file ) or just use the script it self to get the message by STDIN

I assume that you store the addresses in DB , let the perl script retreive the message + email addresses and do the process

if you want , you can devide the process to send X emails in each turn , so you don't kill the server Smilie use sleep(X) where X is a number..


I know this might not be the best solution ,, but its a proper one

good luck and all the best wishes.
 

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MB_SEND_MAIL(3) 							 1							   MB_SEND_MAIL(3)

mb_send_mail - Send encoded mail

SYNOPSIS
bool mb_send_mail NULL NULL (string $to, string $subject, string $message, [string $additional_headers], [string $additional_parame- ter]) DESCRIPTION
Sends email. Headers and messages are converted and encoded according to the mb_language(3) setting. It's a wrapper function for mail(3), so see also mail(3) for details. PARAMETERS
o $to - The mail addresses being sent to. Multiple recipients may be specified by putting a comma between each address in $to. This parameter is not automatically encoded. o $subject - The subject of the mail. o $message - The message of the mail. o $additional_headers (optional) - String to be inserted at the end of the email header. This is typically used to add extra headers (From, Cc, and Bcc). Multiple extra headers should be separated with a CRLF ( ). Note When sending mail, the mail must contain a From header. This can be set with the $additional_headers parameter, or a default can be set in php.ini. Failing to do this will result in an error message similar to Warning: mail(): "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing. The From header sets also Return-Path under Windows. Note If messages are not received, try using a LF ( ) only. Some Unix mail transfer agents (most notably qmail) replace LF by CRLF automatically (which leads to doubling CR if CRLF is used). This should be a last resort, as it does not comply with RFC 2822. o $additional_parameter -$additional_parameter is a MTA command line parameter. It is useful when setting the correct Return-Path header when using send- mail. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.0.0 | | | | | | | The Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding | | | headers may be redefined as of PHP 5.0.0. Before | | | this time, the values defined by mb_language(3) | | | are always used. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mail(3), mb_encode_mimeheader(3), mb_language(3). PHP Documentation Group MB_SEND_MAIL(3)
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