If one were to consider the limitations:
10,000 emails
personlaized
php trigger
And the fact that our box runs exim, is there a short term solution to
efficiently blast that many emails through the system?
I agree - php is _not_ made to handle large bulk mail campaigns. This taken
for granted, I need to get the system nominal until a decision is made to
buy the dedicated server + dev time on an industrial solution.
What tips or tricks about exim could I use in conjunction with php to
facilitate a more efficient solution?
qmail has qmail-inject to speed up the process
sendmail -0 DeliveryMode=q allows faster queueing
Is there anything I can do with exim to make it work better?
regards,
James.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Vanasco" <jvanasco@???
> Look into TwistedPython (www.twistedmatrix.com) or misc Perl mods..
> Net::SMTP might have it.
>
> Php is going to take forever parsing and constructing 10,000 emails --
> regardless of feeding them to exim via a mail() or sendmail hook, or
> making a connection to remote hosts.
>
> Python and Perl scripts would both be far better suited to that than
> php webpages.
>
> You shouldn't even deal with exim -- the script should handle the smtp
> connections to remotes hosts itself. No need to introduce the
> overhead of an MTA in there.
>
> On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 07:38 PM, James Fassett wrote:
>
> > I've searched the archives and the web, but I am afraid that my head
> > is spinning.
> >
> > I am attempting to create an opt-in newsletter mailer that can handle
> > between 8,000 and 10,000 email addresses. This mailer should be
> > triggered from php web based page and should create personalized
> > emails.
> >
> > Originally I was opening an SMTP connection directly to the mail
> > server for each message. This is _incredibly_ slow and would time out
> > horribly.
> >
> > Can anyone provide
> > Tips / experience
> > Resource locations
> > General advice on exim :
> > config options / command line options
> > I should study
> >
> > If anyone here has succesfully accomplished a similar task, any help
> > would be appreciated.
> >
> > regards,
> > James Fassett
> >
> >
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