Re: Calling mail() in a loop

From: Manuel Lemos (mlemos_at_acm.org)
Date: 11/14/03 

To: php-general@lists.php.net
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:34:38 -0200

Hello,

On 11/13/2003 02:42 PM, Chris Bruce wrote:
> Hello all, this is my first post and I have found this list very
> resourceful for me so far.
>
> Here is my question:
>
> I have built a small system to allow my clients to send out permission
> emails to their customers from a MySQL db. It is testing fine to a small
> number of email addresses, but I want to know how it will run if the
> loop gets upwards of 1000+. I could add my email address to the database
> 1000 times, but I don't want to receive this many emails (for obvious
> reasons). Does anyone know first of all how mail() will respond being
> called this many times, and secondly any other function that I could
> call that would be a similar test without having to send out emails.

It depends on your what OS are you using and what local mailer
(sendmail/qmail/postfix/etc.. ) you use in case it is under Linux/Unix. 

-- 
Regards,
Manuel Lemos
Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
http://www.phpclasses.org/

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