Re: Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems ..

You can set the max_timeout varible to zero at the begining of the script and it will continue forever... I once did this for a PHP IRC Bot... (which was kinda cool :)) Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "bain" <bain@thos.co.za> To: "jimtronic" <jim@nettmedia.com> Cc: "php general list" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Sending out mass mail without having timeout problems .. > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 23:13, jimtronic wrote: > > > > Wouldn't it be easier (better) to create a sendmail alias include > > file that has all the addresses in it and let sendmail or majordomo > > or qmail or whatever handle it? > > > > I'm not knocking your method as much as I'm looking for the pros and > > cons of the different methods. > > You missed the actual question :) > > I have to do variable replacing in the message to customize it per > client in the database :) > > so I step through the result set and send per result. > > the problem is I want to get around the max_timeout limit on script > execution as this gets in the way if the list gets very big .. and I > don't want to up the limit for all php scripts being used on the site .. > > HEnti > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >