On 3/7/07, Boaz Rymland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
What you are referring to is off-line execution of PHP. I know there are
ways to do it in other web-targeted scripting languages. In PHP I'm not
aware of free implementation of this functionality. I am familiar with
commercial solution for that. Zend (which is where your truly works for)
happens to sell a server side application which does this, among the
rest. Its far from free (in any meaning), but it does just what you are
looking for... :-) . For more details check here:
http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform/what_s_new (see "Job Queues"
- first in the "new features" list).
Thanks for the feedback. Actually, I'm looking for something free
(beer), free (speech) and easy to implement. It's just a free service
I give to the public. I know it can be used to spam knesset members,
but maybe this will convince them to legally ban spam :-) I could also
set up a mail alias that will forward mail to all the 121 addresses
(includng [EMAIL PROTECTED]), but I want each MK to be the only
recipient to a "personal" message sent to him. Maybe I should have
impleneted it using a procmail script. But I don't know procmail that
well. Do you? And besides, if I set up a mail alias and spam is sent
to it, then they will really receive a lot of spam from my server.
I don't think my server will be marked as spammer in RBL for this
little feature... but who knows? I can always remove it if I want to.
But on the other hand, I might get phone calls from angry police
officers asking me to reveal IP addresses of users who used it to send
anonymous mail. I already received such calls in the past. I never
revealed any information, except once, when they came to my house with
a court order. But I regret it. Next time I will not reveal
anything. I don't track anything anyway (except what the server does
automatically. And please, government people, pretend you haven't
read that!)
On 3/7/07, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What happens when spammers start using your little script? or maybe just
stupid kids start sending curses "just to see if it works"? What if your
user wants to send just the MKs interested in green energy or just the
ones involved in fighting traffic dangers?
you wrote a primitive little webform that will get your website either
blocked or sued faster than you can speed-dial your lawyer.
You are right, it might be used by spammers who want to specifically
harass knesset members (as opposed to spammers who want to make
money). But I don't mind. I'm not doing anything illegal here. I
also decided to allow anonymous mailing (forged address), since SMTP
allows it too. The sender's E-mail address is checked to be legal,
but it can be [EMAIL PROTECTED] as far as I'm concerned. I
don't mind. I don't think knesset members will sue me.... I'm just
the service provider here (not the sender).
You put it in a queue, tell the user you are sending her a confirmation
request. and if the Email checks out you take care of sending the emails
and at the end of the run send another email to tell them it was sent.
Sounds too complicated. I want to send it immediately after the user
presses "send", but I don't want the user to wait before he sees the
confirmation message. Maybe I will just move the PHP script to the
end of the file, after the </html> tag. Will it work?
Uri.
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