What's the best approach to sending email to hundreds of recipients from a Zend Framework application?

Question

I\'m trying to implement a mailing list system for my application. I\'m currently using Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp(\'localhost\') as my transport, looping through

Answer 1

You should be fine using PHP up into the thousands of recipients, although avoid the mail() as others have noted. I've seen a few systems designed for large amounts of mail (100,000+ recipients) kick over to bypassing the standard mailing functions and trying to work more directly with the MTA. Even then it's not been clear to me that was required.

Making email professional is more about making sure the formatting is good (HTML and plain text whenever possible), people can unsubscribe easily, bounces are handled correctly, the mail server has all the right DNS records are in place, and the server configuration doesn't violate rules of any major blacklist system. The language you write the application in isn't a major factor at a few hundred or even a few thousand messages.