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[David Krings]

In that case I'd wonder if the mail server can handle this, which it 
probably could/should. My guess is that the PHP code will most likely not 
exceed execution time of a second if that. I bet sending the messages takes 
longer than for PHP to staple them together. My experience with mail 
servers is limited. I once set one up just to find after a few days that it 
turned into a relay for spammers. I figured that it is better to shut it 
down as I apparently did not know what I was doing. Mercury mail failng to 
save the config files upon clicking save was the main culprit I found out 
later.
It also depends on how fast your box is. I have an old dual P2-333 as my 
server and for that thing not being a speed king and PHP being an 
interpreted language and having everything with MySQL on one box, it is 
still plenty fast for most things...except for running things like a full 
dump into an HTML table of 30,000 records, that takes about 10 seconds and 
is probably due to my inefficient PHP programming.

I'd test it by sending myself 10k messages unless your ISP thinks that is 
abusive (I'm sure they do). If you run your own mail server you are all 
set. Nothing is more fun load tests of this scale.

David K.


At 09:15 AM 9/20/2006, you wrote:
>Estimating volume is challenging. The best I can say is that initially
>it will be close to zero of course. However, in my highest bullish
>hopes, it could easily escalate to 10K or even 100K per day.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
>On Behalf Of Rick Olson
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:00 PM
>To: NYPHP Talk
>Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Multi-part Email Template System
>
>Hi Cliff,
>
>What you have there seems like a simple, logical approach to handle what
>
>you're doing.  As far as speed issues are concerned though, can you
>semi-quantify "numerous" emails?  If you're talking in the range of
>tens-of-thousands / day average, then there are other strategies for
>sending mail (such as injecting the email straight into the mail
>queue).  Other than that though, what you have seems straight forward
>enough in my opinion. =)
>--
>Rick
>
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