kron job / automated job - mass mailing

[phpjaco]

Hello

I need to know what strategies are available for the following situation, I have an automated emailer sending out approximately 1700 emails out and growing in numbers.

Problem is that the ISP only allows me to send out 500 per hour, so I need to create some sort of automated software or get it somewhere that would send out 500 emails everyhour.

Another problem is that I dont want this to be browser based. Because this would take approximately 4 hours and also the client's always on the move so cant expect to have a browser open for 4 hours.

Which solutions are available for this scenario?

Thanks in advance.

[bpat1434]

The solution is to use a cron, or service (depending upon server environment).

Most control panels have an interface for crons that will detail what each input means. But in general, your specific cron would look something like:

Min Hour Day Month Week Path
0 /path/to/your/script.php

What this would do is at the top of each our, on each day, of each week, of each month your script located at "/path/to/your/script.php" would be executed by the system.

Now, as far as keeping track of who has already gotten an email is up to you.