mail() question

[darkcarnival]

hi,

im want to improve my mailing list script i made for my site.

the issue is i have a lot of users on it and the current way have it written now is too slow and i also fear the process is quitting since it takes about a minute to send it out to everyone.

now if you wish to see how im currently doing it below is how im doing it:

[code]$result = mysql_query("select * from email_list WHERE Status='Subscribed'") or die(mysql_error());
$headers = "From: member's monthly update<newsletter@metalstation1.com>\n";
//send out email.
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
set_time_limit(0);
@mail($row['Email'], stripslashes($subject), stripslashes($mail_message), $headers);
}[/code]

now this way works but now that my mailinglist is growing im wondering if theres a better/faster way to send out the newsletter.

thanks :)

[jmag]

Hey,

as it states in the PHP manual the mail() function isn't suitable for looping and sending heaps of mail and isn't resource effective:

[a href=\"http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php[/a]
[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]Note: It is worth noting that the mail() function is not suitable for larger volumes of email in a loop. This function opens and closes an SMTP socket for each email, which is not very efficient.[/quote]

so you might want to read up on sending mail with [a href=\"http://pear.php.net/package/Mail\" target=\"_blank\"]PEAR[/a] which would be more suitable for this.

[darkcarnival]

i dont think i have pear installed on my server or does pear not need anything extra installed for it to work?