Re: Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:14 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > 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. That's the same as running a cron every 5 minutes except now you also need to detect if your daemon dies :) On the plus side though, you eliminate the overhead of starting up the script every 5 minutes :) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP