sending newsletter

[wolf73]

Hi,

It may be rather dumb question. I need to write a program that will send news letter every week. I am just wondering how do people normally do that. I will have to write a program that will run in a loop, read email addresses from the database and read the letter from the database and then shoot emails , right?
Or is there some other better / more efficient logic ?

 

[lgarner]

Depends on where your addresses are stored. If they're in a database, then that's probably the way to go.

You could also set up a list server (that's what they're good at) and have your program send the message to the mailing list. This is what I do for a PHP program that sends out status reports and alerts.

 

[wolf73]

Thanks ......what exactly is list server?

 

[jpadie]

take a look at pear.php.net for some prebuilt mail handling classes.

a list server is some server process that handles sending bulk mail and also often offers secondary services like
automated topic listing
serving specific topics
unsubscribe etc