On 19 Jun 2003 at 9:54, Steve Miller wrote: > 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 >
Why not put all email addresses in Cc field and send it at once? Unless you are creating member specific content, it should work or better yet why not use a dedicated mailing list software for this purpose? R'twick ____ � 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]
