Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Sending thousands of pieces of mail at a time - PEAR? qmail?

[matt d. <mm_...@ya...>]

I used to send 60,000 Unique emails at a time.
I have the code on a disc (I believe) and can get you later.

Here's what I've learned over years of doing it.
use sockets to send and write you own headers- it's not that complicated and it's faster.
swapping in data is not a problem (I used an array to hold some 300 HTML templates and then would just str_replace sections/keywords).
qmail has quirks (there is a line length limit- go past it and it starts spelling text funny).

I'll email you if I find it later.

Matt

----- Original Message ----
From: "sa...@sa..." <sa...@sa...>
To: chi...@li...
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2008 3:42:59 PM
Subject: [chiPHPug-discuss] Sending thousands of pieces of mail at a time - PEAR? qmail?

So currently, my company is using an ancient clunky way of sending mail.
The sysadmins are building us a new qmail server.

What I need to know is how do I hand off several thousand unique
MIME-encoded emails to qmail to send in the most efficient manner possible?
I read somewhere I should be using the PEAR::Mail and PEAR::Mail_Queue
packages, but I have not used any of the PEAR stuff as of yet and am not
sure where to start looking for direction. If someone could push me towards
an idea of what part of the classes to look at first, or even a
skeleton/outline of how to do what I need, it would be greatly appreciated.

(FYI - this is all opt-in, no spamming here.)

Thanks
Sara


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