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Re: Hourly script [message #173310 is a reply to message #173304] Sun, 03 April 2011 00:06 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/2/2011 4:37 PM, P E Schoen wrote:
> "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.
>

Windows also has scheduled tasks. But since the vast majority of the
web servers use Linux, I recommended the Linux version.

> 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. 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/
>

Not if it's a web server it shouldn't!

> 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


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