Re: Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

Well, i have done that once and it worked pretty well... Only diference was that i had a hour limit ( think dreamhost hosting ) and used Swift Mailer, but i think it don't matter a lot ;) I think is a good solution... On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Merlin <merlin_x@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am running a travel community where users want to get informed on changes > inside different groups they have subscribed to. > > At the moment I am doing this with a for loop that generates an individual > e-mail sent to them via phpmailer. That works, however the submit of the > content upload form (that triggers the e-mail notification) now takes > several seconds, as more and more users subscribe. > > 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? 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. > > Any ideas or suggestions? Thank you for any help. > > Best regards, > > Merlin > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Thanks by your attention, Diogo Neves Web Developer @ SAPO.pt by PrimeIT.pt