Re: [cobalt-users] PHP mailing list on RaQ4i 256

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One of my site clients has managed to collect just short of 5000 email
> addresses from his customers when they have made purchases in his bricks and
> mortar store. He wishes for me to write him a mailing list program to manage
> these addresses and enable him to send a marketing message to each one of
> them in turn, quickly and easily (the same message to all addresses).
> 
> I guess my question is to whether PHP would be allowed to actually deliver
> that volume of mail to sendmail before the script times out (still set to
> default 30 seconds AFAIK)?
> Addresses will be stored and retrieved from MySQL db. Essentially would the
> script sending 5000 emails to sendmail in one drop cause it to crash/lock or
> would only a proportion of the messages ever arrive at sendmail due to spool
> size limitations?

FWIW, you might want to look into something I found. I'm not sure what it's
limitations are at this point, as I've just installed it and started playing
with it on my Raq2. It's a PHP/MySQL CRM application called Relatamail.
Here's the link:

http://www.relata.org/

One caveat, it requires PHP installed as a CGI to do the email blasts.

HTH,
j
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