mail sending halts

[rahnel]

Hello,

I am relative newbiew to php & I have a script, which sends email to a database of about 50000.

Script is built like that:
1.Selects all distinct emails
2.UPDATES the email row after sending email to it, so that it recognzes it has already sent email to this address. Is this good solution?

The problem is that the script halts after sending out 600 - 700 emails. Is it somehow possible to correct this? Maybe build in some delay or is it possible to start the script automatically after halting?

[maniac1aw]

I run our mail list from the command line with a CRON job. Look up crontab in google for some reference. I send the message information to a queue (record in a database) and it then sends out messages to the queue 2 times daily.

Just make sure you put your program in a non-web-accessible location so that people can't pull it up in the browser when it is not meant to be run. I also make mine take a command line arguement which is a password using the argv array.

[rahnel]

unfortunately I cannot run crontab, as my hosting provider does not even allow to use telnet. But thanks anyway.
Pertti

[maniac1aw]

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