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Re: time consuming loop [message #170885 is a reply to message #170884]

Sun, 05 December 2010 13:06

The Natural Philosoph
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Paul Fredlein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to automate the emailing of my newsletter to my contact
> group.
>
> In php, I'm thinking of using an arrary of email addresses derived from
> a mysql contact list. Then looping through the array emailing each item
> with my newsletter.
>
> Originally, I played with this inside a mysql query and delaying each
> email by a second so that the host server doesn't think I'm a spammer.
> But then the calling php inside my browser just waited and became
> 'unresponsive'.
>
> So then I thought of the array of email addresses and wondered if
> there's a thread or callback mechanism I can use. Or perhaps I can keep
> track of a progress variable and use a smaller loop initializing a loop
> with the progress variable which is the index into the array - or
> something.
>
> To send the newsletter, I just open that php page in my browser and
> enter a password and away it goes.
>
> I'm sure this is not the proper way to do this but it's only for my use
> and not a commercial product or anythng like that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>

I just built this for a small charity site.

Why not simply send the one email Bcc:'ed to all the recipients?

That will be queued in milliseconds, and go when the mailer gets around
to it.

My ISP is happy to let me do that. I asked them.

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		Re: time consuming loop By: Twayne on Sat, 04 December 2010 17:50
		Re: time consuming loop By: paulfredlein on Sun, 05 December 2010 00:56
		Re: time consuming loop By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 05 December 2010 13:06
		Re: time consuming loop By: paulfredlein on Sun, 05 December 2010 14:00
		Re: time consuming loop By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 05 December 2010 17:59
		Re: time consuming loop By: Captain Paralytic on Sun, 05 December 2010 18:35
		Re: time consuming loop By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 06 December 2010 22:09
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