Email script & waiting time

[Thomisback]

Hey I have got an email script which emails a .txt with about 282K email addresses, I now want to set a waiting time between each e-mail sent, does anyone know how to do this?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

My script:

<?php
// read the list of emails from the file.
$email_list = file("elist.txt");

// count how many emails there are.
$total_emails = count($email_list);

// go through the list and trim off the newline character.
for ($counter=0; $counter<$total_emails; $counter++) {
   $email_list[$counter] = trim($email_list[$counter]);
   }

// implode the list into a single variable, put commas in, apply as $to value.
$to = implode(",",$email_list);

$subject = "My email test.";
$message = "Hello, how are you?";

if ( mail($to,$subject,$message) ) {
   echo "The email has been sent!";
   } else {
   echo "The email has failed!";
   }
?>

[jonsjava]

<?php
sleep(3);
?>

would pause it for 3 seconds

[Thomisback]

Thanks, but how could I do that between each e-mail?

[discomatt]

282K emails? Is this a solicited mailing?

 

I'd love to help, but not if I'm gonna wind up with one of your emails in my inbox

[laffin]

My thoughts exactly, when i seen this post.

[Thomisback]

Don't worry lol, these are all from my website from people who agreed to my ToS, it's only a newsletter.

[jonsjava]

holy underwear, batman! You are doing this the crazy way!

go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailgroup and download my mail group solution application. it sends each email as a single email to a single recipient. The RFC standards for email is no more than 300 recipients unless you are a listserv.

[Thomisback]

Haha, thank you going to have a look at it now!

[discomatt]

You have quite the newsletter!

 

<?php

// Set no max execution time
set_time_limit(0);

// read the list of emails from the file.
$email_list = file("elist.txt");

$subject = "My email test.";
$message = "Hello, how are you?";

foreach ($email_list as $email) {

if ( mail( trim($email),$subject,$message ) )
	echo "Mail sent to $email successfully<br>\n";
else
	echo "Could not send mail to $email<br>\n";

// Pause for 3 seconds
sleep(3);

}

?>

 

Keep in mind, 3 seond delay * 282k emails = almost 10 days to run the script

[jonsjava]

my thought exactly. that's why I recommended the script. It sends out as fast as it can process the data from the database. 1 at a time, and because it has opt-in/opt-out functionality, he won't need to worry about getting hit with a spam fine.