PHP bulk email on setn date

[Voodoochilli]

I need a way to send out emails on a set date of the month. No problem there, I could just get php to send it when someone is on the site and check if it has been sent this month.

The problem is I need to send serveral thousand emails at once. On other emailing scripts like this I have had to do a stepping function, i.e 300 emails at a time. I know there is some way of improving mail() speed by leaving the smtp socket open or something like that, but surely it would take too long to send several thousand emails. Does anyone know another way of doing this automaticaly?

[c010depunkk]

On a linux server you could use crontab to run the script automatically but you need to own the server...

[Voodoochilli]

Originally Posted by c010depunkk

On a linux server you could use crontab to run the script automatically but you need to own the server...

Yeah I have heard of this, but i dont think I have access to that. It would also need to pull the constantly upading email address from a mysql database.