Using email class for large distributions

[eluser]sophistry[/eluser]
1. yes - speed depends on hardware and network setup, of course.
2. right. swiftmailer has a 'template' which will do some kind of email merge for you - not sure if it works with BCC method or the loop and send method. it also has other goodies for batching. someone wrote a simple interface class or tutorial on how to use swiftmailer. search for swiftmail because sometimes people call it that even though it's not called swiftmail.