I'm working on an application that includes e-mail notifications of
certain events. Because the application will have hundreds or thousands
of users, I've designed it so that e-mail notifications are saved to a
MySQL table. Then a regular cron job runs a php page to select the data
from the table, put it into a mail() command and mail.
My original vision was to have the script do about 50 mails, then pause
for a 5 seconds, do a meta refresh and run through another 50 and so on
- with experimentation in numbers as necessary. This process was set up
because I recall reading somewhere - perhaps the manual - that it is not
a good thing to run too many php mail()s in succession. Also, I worry
about php time-outs.
If you know more about PHP and 'nix than I do, you already realise the
fatal flaw here: meta refresh doesn't work on a cron job.
Question: is there an alternative? I appreciate I could use sleep()
after every 50 mails - but there would still be the time-out problem.
I've searched the manual and via Google - but haven't found anything -
possibly I am searching on the wrong terms.
Your help will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeffrey
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