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Re: Hourly script [message #173312 is a reply to message #173311]

Sun, 03 April 2011 00:18

Mr. B-o-B
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On 4/2/2011 7:09 PM, Jerry Stuckle cried from the depths of the abyss:
> 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 is true.

>
>> 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?

Despirate times call for despirate measures.

>
>> 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?

It's fairly easy to time a script, and make it sleep for the difference.

>
>>
>>>
>>> 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
		Re: Hourly script By: Captain Paralytic on Mon, 04 April 2011 13:43

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