What is best way to send thousands of emails? For site updates notifications

[adrianTNT]

Hello, I do not know what is the best practice to do this, how do other scripts/sites do this?

I have a downloads site with categories and users are subscribed to receive emails when a category has something new uploaded.

 

The site might need to send let's say 10 000 emails to different users when a new file was uploaded.

If on upload page I will have a loop that will repeat the mail function 10 000 times...

- Will that work?

- Or the user that submitted the file will need to wait on that upload page too long for 10 000 emails to be sent?

- Or is it a good practice to add all emails in a database and send them later and maybe in smaller groups?

 

How do others do this?

Thanks.

 

Adrian.

[uwannadonkey]

on upload page is BAD idea, because it will cause page to timeout