Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
Subject: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. Hi, Too much trouble to write who wrote what when. Someone suggested using an alias but that's not always doable. I had an app that read from a live rdbms and sent out emails. I sent each email to sendmail and waited fo it to send the email before going on to the next one. My cohort determined that this was way, way too slow. He did some research and added some new parameters to sendmail so that the email was put in a queue and so the script ran MUCH faster. I believe these were the parameters. You should look them up on the sendmail site: sendmail -oi -t -odq Hope this helps. Peter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
Hi, If you will send a lot of e-mails, I recomend you, that use under the Console: $rush nohup php -q file_send_email.php The nohup, tell to maquine that don't hang up until finished. php -q (quiet mode) and the last character () for let the process in background. It's only works on *nix Boxes, I don't think that will work under M$ windows. Bye, At 12:02 PM -0600 27/12/01, Peter wrote: Subject: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. Hi, Too much trouble to write who wrote what when. Someone suggested using an alias but that's not always doable. I had an app that read from a live rdbms and sent out emails. I sent each email to sendmail and waited fo it to send the email before going on to the next one. My cohort determined that this was way, way too slow. He did some research and added some new parameters to sendmail so that the email was put in a queue and so the script ran MUCH faster. I believe these were the parameters. You should look them up on the sendmail site: sendmail -oi -t -odq Hope this helps. Peter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Jesus Maria Bianco Troconis (yisu) E-MAIL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ4792036 / nickname yisu WEBhttp://yisu.net Telefono/Phone +58 (414) 3042346 (Ciudad/City) Caracas, Venezuela Mac, PHP MySQL Rulez. They Kick some ass! __ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
can this be set in the php file or htaccess with sendmail_path =pathtosendmail/sendmail -oi -t -odq; Paul Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. Subject: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. Hi, Too much trouble to write who wrote what when. Someone suggested using an alias but that's not always doable. I had an app that read from a live rdbms and sent out emails. I sent each email to sendmail and waited fo it to send the email before going on to the next one. My cohort determined that this was way, way too slow. He did some research and added some new parameters to sendmail so that the email was put in a queue and so the script ran MUCH faster. I believe these were the parameters. You should look them up on the sendmail site: sendmail -oi -t -odq Hope this helps. Peter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
?php // put this stuff at the top of the program set_time_limit(0); ignore_user_abort(1); // your mail stuff goes here // once you access the script, close your browser, // it should run in the background until finished. ? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ignore-user-abort.php Robert V. Zwink http://www.zwink.net/daid.php -Original Message- From: bain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:41 AM To: php general list Subject: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. Hi all I've been working on a system for our company that uses MySQL to grab user data and then send personalized mail to them once a month. currently I step thought the mysql result mailling one mail per return. as you can imagine .. my script timeout value is sitting on 24hours to allow all the mail in our big database to go throught. Is there a way I can fork or thread the mail send process so I can send more then one mail at a time .. or maybe even buffer the MySQL result and send the mail in the background but still return the browser .. any sugestions .. please -- Henti Smith Systems Administrator The House Of Synergy http://www.thos.co.za [EMAIL PROTECTED] +27 11 259-9821 -- Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. -- James Thurber -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
You might try something like this. First estimate the number of emails that you can send out in 30 seconds (or however long the timeout is). Hard code that value into your script. Use the location header method to redirect the script back to its self sending along a new variable $row in the GET string. This var refers to the next start row in your database. header(location:http://www.mydomain.com/myscript.php?row=$row;). Include an if() statement somewhere in there to break from the loop when you've reached the end of your database. Doable? -Kevin Stone On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 23:13, jimtronic wrote: Wouldn't it be easier (better) to create a sendmail alias include file that has all the addresses in it and let sendmail or majordomo or qmail or whatever handle it? I'm not knocking your method as much as I'm looking for the pros and cons of the different methods. You missed the actual question :) I have to do variable replacing in the message to customize it per client in the database :) so I step through the result set and send per result. the problem is I want to get around the max_timeout limit on script execution as this gets in the way if the list gets very big .. and I don't want to up the limit for all php scripts being used on the site .. HEnti -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
how do I do that on a virtual server? (Linux+apache, I'm just a user not admin) the con is that I can't afford the phone bill, I'm on a dial up (56K). Paul Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: jimtronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. Wouldn't it be easier (better) to create a sendmail alias include file that has all the addresses in it and let sendmail or majordomo or qmail or whatever handle it? I'm not knocking your method as much as I'm looking for the pros and cons of the different methods. jim the way I handle this is to send a response to the browser before sending any mail you can then close the browser window and the script will carry on while you do something else. I get the script to send me an email when its finished 2-3 hours later. (I have around 6000 newsletters that are sent out) Paul Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:39 AM Subject: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Musil - Multimedia Programmer Nettmedia - 212-629-0004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
the way I handle this is to send a response to the browser before sending any mail you can then close the browser window and the script will carry on while you do something else. I get the script to send me an email when its finished 2-3 hours later. (I have around 6000 newsletters that are sent out) Paul Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:39 AM Subject: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
Wouldn't it be easier (better) to create a sendmail alias include file that has all the addresses in it and let sendmail or majordomo or qmail or whatever handle it? I'm not knocking your method as much as I'm looking for the pros and cons of the different methods. jim the way I handle this is to send a response to the browser before sending any mail you can then close the browser window and the script will carry on while you do something else. I get the script to send me an email when its finished 2-3 hours later. (I have around 6000 newsletters that are sent out) Paul Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:39 AM Subject: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Musil - Multimedia Programmer Nettmedia - 212-629-0004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 23:13, jimtronic wrote: Wouldn't it be easier (better) to create a sendmail alias include file that has all the addresses in it and let sendmail or majordomo or qmail or whatever handle it? I'm not knocking your method as much as I'm looking for the pros and cons of the different methods. You missed the actual question :) I have to do variable replacing in the message to customize it per client in the database :) so I step through the result set and send per result. the problem is I want to get around the max_timeout limit on script execution as this gets in the way if the list gets very big .. and I don't want to up the limit for all php scripts being used on the site .. HEnti -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
You can set the max_timeout varible to zero at the begining of the script and it will continue forever... I once did this for a PHP IRC Bot... (which was kinda cool :)) Andrew - Original Message - From: bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jimtronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php general list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 23:13, jimtronic wrote: Wouldn't it be easier (better) to create a sendmail alias include file that has all the addresses in it and let sendmail or majordomo or qmail or whatever handle it? I'm not knocking your method as much as I'm looking for the pros and cons of the different methods. You missed the actual question :) I have to do variable replacing in the message to customize it per client in the database :) so I step through the result set and send per result. the problem is I want to get around the max_timeout limit on script execution as this gets in the way if the list gets very big .. and I don't want to up the limit for all php scripts being used on the site .. HEnti -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
In background :
1)$result_does_not_matter = `/path/to/your/massmailer.php 1mail_std_out.log
2mail_std_err.log `;
2) use exec with cmd as the above.
With PHP you can write PHP shellscripts:
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
?php
// ...some code here
// in the code you may use sleep() or usleep() in a cycle. The cycle uses one big
result set which had been got before the cycle or
makes like this:
// $res= mysql_query(''select email from employee limit .$start++.,1);
// list($email) = mysql_fetch_array($res);
// mysql_free_result($res);
?
HTH
Regards,
Andrey Hristov
IcyGEN Corporation
http://www.icygen.com
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From: bain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: php general list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..
Hi all
I've been working on a system for our company that uses MySQL to grab
user data and then send personalized mail to them once a month.
currently I step thought the mysql result mailling one mail per return.
as you can imagine .. my script timeout value is sitting on 24hours to
allow all the mail in our big database to go throught.
Is there a way I can fork or thread the mail send process so I can send
more then one mail at a time .. or maybe even buffer the MySQL result
and send the mail in the background but still return the browser ..
any sugestions .. please
--
Henti Smith
Systems Administrator
The House Of Synergy
http://www.thos.co.za
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+27 11 259-9821
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