Steve Miller bespaketh on Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:54 AM: > Hi all, > > I have written a small php script which pulls email addresses (about > 1000) from my online db and sends a small html email newsletter (this > is not spam but a weekly member update). Normally, I would not worry > about having enough time to loop 1000 times through a section of a > script. However, since this must connect to sendmail each time > through, I am concerned because there is a 30 second serverside > script timeout. > > Questions: > 1) should I be concerned about a timeout, or does connecting to > sendmail not affect the run speed of the loop > > 2) this is on a remote shared webserver on which I only have access > to my domain via telnet. Is there a way to view sendmail logs to see > if everything went? > > Thanks for any guidance, > > steve miller > > > Steve (time keeps on slippin') Miller, I have been tweaking an ASP script using CDOSYS to do the same thing for a couple o' months now. While the language is different I assume the logic is the same... In ASP, you can set the script timeout on the page you call the script from, so I set mine to something rediculously high, like 9999 seconds. In addition, I checked with my admin to make sure there was no throttling being done on the outbound mail and had him enable logging on SMTP. Another thing I just built into the app is some error trapping. I have it set up as a two page app (primarily so I can have 'ye olde Big Red Button' on one of the pages :^) and the second page prints to the contactID of any email that there is an error on and then resumes the script after the errror. Another thing I was doing during the testing period was setting up the script in a for loop and sending (in my case 4000 emails) to a friends domain that had his own SMTP server set up (so I don't get blacklisted for spam) just to ensure the script could actually make it through what I figured as the peak it would send in one go. Hopefully some of this helps.
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