Since mail(); isn't very good for a [highly] mass-email, does anyone have any recommended code for emailing a high number of emails?

Also a side question, what can I do if it goes to their Junk email? Anything I can set etc?

Thanks.

I usually run mass mail code through command line. This takes care of any apache timeout limits and you can configure php on the page to ignore it's timeout using ini_set.

Originally Posted by Galaxian

Also a side question, what can I do if it goes to their Junk email? Anything I can set etc?

Put "Please, please go the the inbox" at the top of the email.

Originally Posted by flann

I usually run mass mail code through command line. This takes care of any apache timeout limits and you can configure php on the page to ignore it's timeout using ini_set.

Thanks, however I'm more looking for directions with PHP code that is an alternative to mail() which seems to open and close the port for each mail sent.

Originally Posted by joder

Put "Please, please go the the inbox" at the top of the email.

Fun.

Any help anyone?

I did some research and found this, I take no credit for it, it's on the php site for fsockopen by a guy iain at monitormedia dot co dot uk.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php it's down near the bottom.

PHP Code:

<? 

function another_mail($to,$subject,$headers,$message) 
{ 
 // Could get this from the php ini? 
 $from="me@here.com"; 
 list($me,$mydomain) = split("@",$from); 

 // Now look up the mail exchangers for the recipient 
 list($user,$domain) = split("@",$to,2); 
 if(getmxrr($domain,$mx,$weight) == 0)  return FALSE; 

 // Try them in order of lowest weight first 
 array_multisort($mx,$weight); 
 $success=0; 

 foreach($mx as $host) { 
  // Open an SMTP connection 
  $connection = fsockopen ($host, 25, &$errno, &$errstr, 1); 
  if (!$connection) 
    continue; 
  $res=fgets($connection,256); 
  if(substr($res,0,3) != "220") break; 

  // Introduce ourselves 
  fputs($connection, "HELO $mydomain\n"); 
  $res=fgets($connection,256); 
  if(substr($res,0,3) != "250") break; 

  // Envelope from 
  fputs($connection, "MAIL FROM: $from\n"); 
  $res=fgets($connection,256); 
  if(substr($res,0,3) != "250") break; 

  // Envelope to 
  fputs($connection, "RCPT TO: $to\n"); 
  $res=fgets($connection,256); 
  if(substr($res,0,3) != "250") break; 

  // The message 
  fputs($connection, "DATA\n"); 
  $res=fgets($connection,256); 
  if(substr($res,0,3) != "354") break; 

  // Send To:, From:, Subject:, other headers, blank line, message, and finish 
  // with a period on its own line. 
  fputs($connection, "To: $to\nFrom: $from\nSubject: $subject\n$headers\n\n$message\n.\n"); 
  $res=fgets($connection,256); 
  if(substr($res,0,3) != "250") break; 

  // Say bye bye 
  fputs($connection,"QUIT\n"); 
  $res=fgets($connection,256); 
  if(substr($res,0,3) != "221") break; 

  // It worked! So break out of the loop which tries all the mail exchangers. 
  $success=1; 
  break; 
 } 
 // Debug for if we fall over - uncomment as desired 
 // print $success?"Mail sent":"Failure: $res\n"; 
 if($connection) { 
  if($success==0) fputs($connection, "QUIT\n"); 
  fclose ($connection); 
 } 
 return $success?TRUE:FALSE; 
} 

another_mail("recipient@some.domain","My Subject","X-mailer: PHP Script\nX-another-header: Whatever","Test email body.\n\nNote if you actually put a period on a line\nby itself, the function will terminate prematurely.\n\nYou will get a partial email sent though.\n"); 
?>

Thank you, I will test this.

If you know shell programming you could throw together a quick script that reads a file which is the list of email addresses.