Thanks Jon and Stephen. Some good ideas to look into. I like the idea of changing the timeout, but not sure if the host will! Putting myself last on the list makes a lot of sense.
I think I will have to do the test and send myself 1000 emails (yikes!) and see what happens. steve >> > 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 ma > Hopefully some of this helps. ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
