Miles Thompson wrote:
At 10:50 AM 9/12/2005, Ryan A wrote:
Hi,
My client has a dating site and now he wants to mail all his members,
he does not want to use any of the already installed mailing lists but
wants
us to make one
for him, he's on a dedicated server.
Presently he does not have too many members, just a few thousand
(around 3k
i guess),
I remember reading sometime back on the list that using the mail() may
not
be the best
option...not sure if thats still true.
The thing that bothers me the most is if the program times out..., how
do I
start again from
the ones that have not been sent?
eg:
(10 members)
mail gets sent to first 4 members then times out
we re-click on the send button and it starts again from one...again times
out
(this happens 5 times)
that means members 1-4 will get the same email 5 times
Doing this the hard way would be to connect to the db after each
successful
mail and "mark"
each member with todays date or something...but I would like to avoid so
many calls to the
DB if possible...esp if the site grows.
Ideas/suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Ryan
Addition to my prev msg ...
We don't have access to cron processes on our ISP's server, so the
nightly mailing goes out as a scheduled job from a Windows XP box.
You can have your own cron processes. See man crontab. Try "crontab -e"
with your user, in a shell login. But the admin can forbid users install
their jobs in a crontab.
We have maybe three glitches per year:
1. user forgets and shuts the box down,
2. forgets and turns off the script, or
3. the power fails and machine is not set up to automatically
reboot and feed itself her password.
This is all "livable-with".
Cheers - Miles
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