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Sat, 02 April 2011 22:18

Mr. B-o-B
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On 4/2/2011 3:37 PM, P E Schoen cried from the depths of the abyss:
> "Question Boy" wrote in message
> news:bc56da6b-df1c-4a56-9789-78fd24c0268d(at)s9g2000yqm(dot)googlegroups(dot)com...
>
>> I built a mailing tool for a custom database for a charity
>> organisation and it does work, but our host has a limit of
>> 200 e-mails an hour. As it stands, someone has to manually
>> send out 200 e-mails every hour until the whole lot is processed
>> (2800 recipients and growing). I was simply wondering if there
>> is a way to modify/add a bit of code to process the entire
>> recordset in batches of 200 records per hour?
>
> The other responses are probably all you need. The CRON job seems to
> require access to the UNIX environment, and I'm not sure how that might
> be done if you are working from a Windows platform. There are many ways
> to do this, but the best way may depend on just how your script is
> written. I am assuming it is PHP and is running on either a remote host
> or your localhost Apache server or equivalent.

You will need shell access to run a cron locally on the host. If that
is not an option, you can use a cron on another *nix box to hit a script
that will send 200 messages.
lynx -dump /webserver/script.php is a good one.

This can also be done from a remote windows box as well using scheduled
tasks.

I myself would just program the email script to send 200 messages / wait
for the duration of the hour, repeat until all messages are sent.

>
> Since I am using a Win7 machine, which may go to sleep or shut down once
> in a while, it would make better sense to run whatever scheduling
> application on the remote server.

So why not tell your 7 box to never go to sleep?

> And in that case, of course, the
> address list and the content would need to be there as well, probably in
> a MySQL or similar database. I found the following that may help:
> http://www.phpjobscheduler.co.uk/
>
> Otherwise, there may be some free email servers that permit mass
> mailings, and if not, there are some that seem to be inexpensive. Here
> are some reviews:
> http://email.about.com/od/freeemailreviews/tp/free_email.htm
>
> Paul

Do a google search for "unlimited smtp access". Find a cheap one, and
be done with it.

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		Hourly script By: Question Boy on Sat, 02 April 2011 17:38
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 02 April 2011 17:40
		Re: Hourly script By: Question Boy on Sat, 02 April 2011 17:42
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 02 April 2011 17:56
		Re: Hourly script By: Luuk on Sat, 02 April 2011 17:54
		Re: Hourly script By: Eli the Bearded on Sat, 02 April 2011 17:58
		Re: Hourly script By: P E Schoen on Sat, 02 April 2011 20:37
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Sat, 02 April 2011 22:18
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 April 2011 00:09
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Sun, 03 April 2011 00:18
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 April 2011 02:00
		Re: Hourly script By: Luuk on Sun, 03 April 2011 11:03
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 April 2011 12:46
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Sun, 03 April 2011 15:12
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Sun, 03 April 2011 15:26
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 April 2011 18:01
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Sun, 03 April 2011 14:22
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 April 2011 18:09
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Sun, 03 April 2011 19:23
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 April 2011 20:04
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Sun, 03 April 2011 23:59
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 04 April 2011 00:49
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Mon, 04 April 2011 00:55
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Mon, 04 April 2011 00:57
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 04 April 2011 00:50
		Re: Hourly script By: Mr. B-o-B on Mon, 04 April 2011 00:56
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 04 April 2011 01:51
		Re: Hourly script By: Michael Fesser on Sun, 03 April 2011 03:02
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 April 2011 12:53
		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 April 2011 00:06
		Re: Hourly script By: Jim Higgins on Sat, 02 April 2011 23:18
		Re: Hourly script By: Question Boy on Sat, 02 April 2011 23:56
		Re: Hourly script By: Captain Paralytic on Mon, 04 April 2011 13:43

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