PHP mail() max outgoing e-mails limit workaround?

From: Emil Falcon (emilfalcon_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/12/04

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    Hi,

    I've recently switched some of my websites to a web server that limits
    the amount of e-mails you can send from a particular domain to maximum
    100 per hour. I had already created a mailing list application to
    manage/send out monthly newsletters (it simply looped through all the
    emails in the database and then called the mail() function for each
    email), but since I have over 1000 email addresses signed up to my
    list, only the first 100 are actually sent out, and the remaining 900
    get bounced back.

    Since the hourly limitation is necessary to limit e-mail spam, I need
    to find a way to send out the first 100 emails and queue the rest of
    them, emailing them in batches of 100 every hour. Since most web hosts
    have this email limitations, I'm assuming this is a problem that
    arises quite often, and that people have already found solutions to
    this. So can anyone recommend a PHP script/app that takes care of
    queuing any outgoing emails that go over the limit? Or perhaps some
    other alterative? Otherwise I'd have to develop something like this on
    my own.

    Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated...

    Thanks,

    Emil.

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