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Sun, 05 December 2010 14:00

paulfredlein
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Hi,

I never thought of Bcc, but I have around 300 to email.

Regards,

Paul

The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:

> Paul Fredlein wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to automate the emailing of my newsletter to my contact
>> group.
>>
>> In php, I'm thinking of using an arrary of email addresses derived from
>> a mysql contact list. Then looping through the array emailing each item
>> with my newsletter.
>>
>> Originally, I played with this inside a mysql query and delaying each
>> email by a second so that the host server doesn't think I'm a spammer.
>> But then the calling php inside my browser just waited and became
>> 'unresponsive'.
>>
>> So then I thought of the array of email addresses and wondered if
>> there's a thread or callback mechanism I can use. Or perhaps I can keep
>> track of a progress variable and use a smaller loop initializing a loop
>> with the progress variable which is the index into the array - or
>> something.
>>
>> To send the newsletter, I just open that php page in my browser and
>> enter a password and away it goes.
>>
>> I'm sure this is not the proper way to do this but it's only for my use
>> and not a commercial product or anythng like that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
> I just built this for a small charity site.
>
> Why not simply send the one email Bcc:'ed to all the recipients?
>
>
> That will be queued in milliseconds, and go when the mailer gets around
> to it.
>
> My ISP is happy to let me do that. I asked them.

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