Need help - send mail

[petebolduc]

Thank you for reviewing my question,

I am writing a send mail script and need to be able to limit the mail going out to one per every 5 seconds.

The list will be called from a mysql database on the server and I am not quite sure how to tell the script to send only one out from the list every 5 seconds.

It seems it would be some kind of a loop but new to php and not sure

Any help would be greatly appreciated

thanks,
pete

[coldwerturkey]

use a while() loop w/ the database query, and put sleep(5) in it,

somthing like,

<?php
$query = "SELECT * FROM table";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
	mail($row['email'], 'subject', 'message');
	sleep(5);
}
?>

I understand your reasoning for this, but there's a better way to send bulk emails.. digging around PEAR & their email whatever-it's-called might be worth the Google.

[petebolduc]

Thanks for the prompt response... great help

pete