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[Anthony Papillion]

This discussion triggers a question that I'm sure someone here can answer:
wouldn't forking the script to the background allow one to send a huge
volume of email without a timeout?

Anthony

On 11/15/05, Alberto dos Santos <yournway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> David,
>
> > Running a daemon or some other really long-lived process is not an
> option.
> > I am thinking cron: every couple of hours, wake up and send. Do 50 or so
> > and sleep for a few seconds until you're done. Yeah that would take a
> long
> > time for 200,000 emails but this is never gonna need to scale like that.
> >
>
> I work in a non-profit project called dailygospel.org<http://dailygospel.org>and we send out
> 163.000+ emails everyday of the week with readings from the good book
> in 11 languages.
>
> We use purposedly written php scripts that dispatch emails, once they
> are parsed and ready, onto a qmail queue.
>
> In order to cope with volume we do exactly that, we have divided the
> sendings by timezone and use cron to trigger the events.
>
> What we don't have, and very much would like to have, is a way to
> automaticaly monitor if the emails have been received or bounced back,
> and remove the bouncers from the send list so, if you should come to a
> script that is capable of handling this volume and does what you need
> (and what we need too) we are candidates to take a deep look at it and
> implement a similar solution at evangelizo.org <http://evangelizo.org>.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Alberto dos Santos
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>
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