send mass email in php

what is the best way to send mass email in php. let say i want to send 1000 emails. should i send all emails at a time, or should i do looping? i read someone thread, he said that he got error "too much recipient" when sending mass email.. does looping consider as sending mass email?
Thanks for helping..

 

ya u dont want to do all at once, because then the other people will have all the emails, use while statement for it is my suggestion, while or a for statement

 

create a cronjob service for an hour and run that code on it.

 

Just a tip. I created something similar to send a few hundred thousand e-mails a week.

One way to get past spam filters (they were double opt-in emails, but our server was not white listed) is to use something like PHPMailer and connect to a google account.
Then send the e-mails using their servers. Much better hit rate .

Combine this with google apps and you can send e-mails that originate from your domain name as well.

<?php
	require("class.phpmailer.php");
	
	$mailer = new PHPMailer();
	$mailer->IsSMTP();
	$mailer->Host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465';
	$mailer->SMTPAuth = TRUE;
	$mailer->Username = 'x@gmail.com';  // your gmail address
	$mailer->Password = 'xxx';  // your gmail password
	$mailer->From = 'x@gmail.com';  // your gmail address
	$mailer->FromName = 'x'; // who it's from
	$mailer->Body = 'This is the main body of the email';
	$mailer->Subject = 'This is the subject of the email';
	$mailer->AddAddress('dude@hmm.co.uk');  // who you're sending to
	
	if (!$mailer->Send()) {
	   echo "Message was not sent<br/ >";
	   echo "Mailer Error: " . $mailer->ErrorInfo;
	} else {
	   echo "Message has been sent";
	}
?>

PHP:

 

My personal solution for this would be a mysql database table that acts as a mail queue and a script that runs once per minute on a cron job, this script would retrieve a number of unsent (WHERE mail_queue.mail_sent = 0) rows from the "mail_queue" and join the "content" and "subject" fields from the "emails" table based on the "mail_queue.emails_id" and build and send the emails.
As each email is sent I would update "mail_queue.mail_sent" to 1.

(my personal favourite for sending email in PHP is Zend_Mail)

DB tables example:
mail_queue (fields: id, to_email, from_email, to_name, from_name, emails_id (related to emails table), mail_sent)
emails (fields: id, content, subject )

There would also need to be a script or admin system to get the emails into the "mail_queue" table and maybe a small CMS to manage the emails in the "emails" table, or you could just do this with Phpmyadmin.

The cron script could also clean up the mail_queue table once a day or so.

Just an idea ;-)

 

i try do 1000 looping.. i got "Internal Server Error".. but in my inbox got 1000 mails..

 

thanks all for helping..