Mass Mails and Not Crashing Server

I have to write a script that will send about 300 emails with an
automatically generated report and text, and I am concerned about crashing
the server with that many successive calls to mail()... Is that a reasonable
concern, or am I being foolish?

And, if is a reasonable concern, my assumed solution would be to call
sleep() for, say, 15 seconds between each mail send...

Am I on the right track, or is there a better way?

Thanks for any help...

Tim McGurk <nicetim33@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have to write a script that will send about 300 emails with an
> automatically generated report and text, and I am concerned about
> crashing
> the server with that many successive calls to mail()... Is that a
> reasonable
> concern, or am I being foolish?

Any normal server should be able to handle this. 300 isn't exactly 'mass'
mail compared to the real thing. If you have to sent thousands of emails
at once, then it's usually better to let a third party specialist handle
this.
--
Rik Wasmus

On 5 Mar, 09:25, Rik <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Tim McGurk <niceti...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have to write a script that will send about 300 emails with an
> > automatically generated report and text, and I am concerned about
> > crashing
> > the server with that many successive calls to mail()... Is that a
> > reasonable
> > concern, or am I being foolish?
>
> Any normal server should be able to handle this. 300 isn't exactly 'mass'
> mail compared to the real thing. If you have to sent thousands of emails
> at once, then it's usually better to let a third party specialist handle
> this.
> --
> Rik Wasmus

also you should think about using authenticated smtp, that way your
function can make use of a keepalive to send the whole lot at once,
and in this case sleep() would actually result in MORE load to the
server. Crashing the server is just not a remote possibility, having
your mail /dev/null'ed by your Hosting provider might be, so check
their t&c, some do not allow more than 10 mails a minute max 150 per
hour..... some really can be that tight.