Re: Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

Merlin wrote: > I am thinking about placing the info on the individual e-mail inside a > ascii txt file that will be read by a cron job which will send the > e-mail instead. Something like every 5 minutes reading it line by line > and then after sending it removing the line. > e.g: > for:bla@blub.de; body:individual > for:new@something.com; body:other email > > Does this sound like a plan? Or do you believe that there are better > ways doing it? Sounds pretty good to me. > I could imagine that I would run into problems a few > months from now if for example the cron job will be triggered a second > time, while the first one has not finished. That's easily taken care of. Instead of a cron-job, you could have a script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent every 5mins. /Per Jessen, Zürich