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Re: Hourly script [message #173311 is a reply to message #173306]

Sun, 03 April 2011 00:09

Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/2/2011 6:18 PM, Mr. B-o-B wrote:
> 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.
>

No you don't. There are webmaster tools which allow you to set up cron
jobs.

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

Oh gawd - why would you EVER want to do that?

> 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.
>
>

And exactly how are you going to do that?

>
>>
>> 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?
>

Exactly.

>> 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.
>

A very good suggestion.

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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
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