Question about email sending

[yellow1912]

I'm writing a zen contrib which involves sending out a large number of mails.
I plan to use zen_mail() function within a loop (should I?), but I wonder if I should wait a few mili seconds/seconds between each mail to avoid overloading the server?

Regards.

[kobra]

Many hosts have a mail limit to preclude spammers from obtaining access and flooding the server...

You might try to include a # setting

[yellow1912]

Hi,

Do you mean something like X mails/ minute or hour right?

[kobra]

Again depending on the host settings this is set to hour or day or??

[swguy]

... or even an absolute number. Check with your host to be sure - no sense in getting your account cancelled because you didn't know the rules.

And of course, be sure you have *permission* to send those emails (i.e. these are newsletter subscribers, not just your customer list).

Scott