I've written a web based application for our Marketing dept. to use for our members. This app uses an html template that it parses through and replaces special tags with user specific info. We are mailing as many as 10,000 at a time. The script that does this basically just loops through the member list parses the template composes the email(using MIME::Lite) and sends it to qmail. At the end of the sending I give a report on the screen that shows how many were sent...etc. Here is the problem. With long email lists the script can take up to 20 minutes to finish. It seems that this is too long, because around 15 minutes the browser window changes to can't find server/dns error. I know it isn't a CGI gateway timeout issue cause I do autoflush and continue to send small chunks of data to the browser every 100 emails sent.
What I'd like to have happen is when the user hits the send button, just have a page load immediatly that notifies them the script is running and an error report will be emailed to them shortly. This way the script either closes the connection and continues to run or passes it off to another script that will email the batch. I'm not sure exactly how to implement this. Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks, Byron We are running on a Unix machine. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
