Hi Angelo, Why not send them all in one go? If you want to reduce server load, you should perhaps adjust the 'nice'ness of the script. If you do the following: nice --adjustment=19 ./script.php Your script will run in the background and use only spare resources. Cheers, David Grant Angelo Zanetti wrote: > Hi > > I have a dedicated server in the states. > > I need to send about 8000 emails (once off). There pretty small +- 5KB. > > > so I want to write a php script and run it from the command line in the > background. I was thinking of sending 50 emails then waiting 90 seconds > then sending again. > > Or > > the same script gets run by cron every 90 seconds and just sends 50 emails. > > What do you recommend? > > thanks > > clive -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
