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Posted by Nuno Pereira on 10/09/29 11:26
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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Nuno Pereira
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