Re: [web2py] Re: Create an email queing feature...

2011-05-28 Thread Jason Brower
On 05/28/2011 12:17 AM, pbreit wrote: I'd also suggest SendGrid (200/day free, 10 cents for 1,000). It looks like you are now trying it as a background process. I've had better luck with cron. And since you only want to send every hour or so, you could set the cron to run hourly. I didn't

Re: [web2py] Re: Create an email queing feature...

2011-05-28 Thread pbreit
It's not for speed so much as for deliverability.

Re: [web2py] Re: Create an email queing feature...

2011-05-28 Thread Jason (spot) Brower
After looking at the site I see what you mean. I will keep it in mind as the program increases in size. BR, Jason Brower On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 4:55 PM, pbreit pbreitenb...@gmail.com wrote: It's not for speed so much as for deliverability.

[web2py] Re: Create an email queing feature...

2011-05-27 Thread mattgorecki
What about using something like Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com)? Or Postmark (http://postmarkapp.com/)? Let somebody else worry about throttling and blacklists and all of the headaches of smtp servers. Matt On May 26, 10:50 pm, Jason Brower encomp...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I practically have

[web2py] Re: Create an email queing feature...

2011-05-27 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
+1 On May 27, 4:02 pm, mattgorecki m...@goelephant.com wrote: What about using something like Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com)?Or Postmark (http://postmarkapp.com/)? Let somebody else worry about throttling and blacklists and all of the headaches of smtp servers. Matt On May 26, 10:50 pm,

[web2py] Re: Create an email queing feature...

2011-05-27 Thread pbreit
I'd also suggest SendGrid (200/day free, 10 cents for 1,000). It looks like you are now trying it as a background process. I've had better luck with cron. And since you only want to send every hour or so, you could set the cron to run hourly.

[web2py] Re: Create an email queing feature...

2011-05-26 Thread ron_m
A possible idea, each email insert into a table. When the cron job wakes up have it read X number of emails with the smallest ID value from the table and process them. Delete the row as each one is completed.

Re: [web2py] Re: Create an email queing feature...

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Brower
Yes, I practically have that now. The issue is how do I create the cron task and script to execute it? One way I am taking this further is, as long as the conference is alive I can compair this list with who has signed into the conference to get an idea of how many people have reacted to the