Re: Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

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Merlin wrote:

> I am thinking about placing the info on the individual e-mail inside a
> ascii txt file that will be read by a cron job which will send the
> e-mail instead. Something like every 5 minutes reading it line by line
> and then after sending it removing the line.
> e.g:
> for:bla@xxxxxxx; body:individual
> for:new@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; body:other email
> 
> Does this sound like a plan? Or do you believe that there are better
> ways doing it? 

Sounds pretty good to me.

> I could imagine that I would run into problems a few 
> months from now if for example the cron job will be triggered a second
> time, while the first one has not finished.

That's easily taken care of.  Instead of a cron-job, you could have a
script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent every 5mins. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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