Spreading load for large mailing lists (mail...)
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> I have a mailing list with about 900 users on it, now at the moment I just
do a while loop on an sql
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> query and mail() each one.
> I noticed that this spawns a sendmail process for each one on the server,
which bogs it doen all at once.
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> Can anyone suggest a better way of doing this? I thought, maybe a form, so
it progresses by a hundred and
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> refreshes onto another form with start=100,200,300 etc.
imho you should use mailing list software like majordomo or something, but
anyway, you can set multiple recipients for each mail which will only
spawn one sendmail process for accepting the mail. if you don't want the
recipients to be visible, put them all in bcc.
bart