Hi, I have a big list of newsletter subscribers and was thinking of just writing a quick script using the php mail function to loop through and send an email to all of them... my question is would these get filtered as bulk mail? if so any recommendations on how to prevent this? Thanks
no it shouldn't, you coud use sleep() to pause the script every x amount of mails if your worried, most forums send out 500 mails at once no problems
Ok... I'm not in a rush to send them out so I think I will probably use the sleep function and I want to be as safe as possible so do you think pausing ever 50 emails for a few minutes would help? Or how often should I pause and for how long? Thanks for the reply
I would say every 250-500 emails call sleep(5) and if you can work it so the page header("location: ?range=500-999"); everytime so the script doen't timeout, you could also try set_time_limit(0) but its not foolproof.....