Well, i have done that once and it worked pretty well...
Only diference was that i had a hour limit ( think dreamhost hosting )
and used Swift Mailer, but i think it don't matter a lot ;)
I think is a good solution...

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Merlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am running a travel community where users want to get informed on changes
> inside different groups they have subscribed to.
>
> At the moment I am doing this with a for loop that generates an individual
> e-mail sent to them via phpmailer. That works, however the submit of the
> content upload form (that triggers the e-mail notification) now takes
> several seconds, as more and more users subscribe.
>
> I am thinking about placing the info on the individual e-mail inside a ascii
> txt file that will be read by a cron job which will send the e-mail instead.
> Something like every 5 minutes reading it line by line and then after
> sending it removing the line.
> e.g:
> for:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; body:individual
> for:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; body:other email
>
> Does this sound like a plan? Or do you believe that there are better ways
> doing it? I could imagine that I would run into problems a few months from
> now if for example the cron job will be triggered a second time, while the
> first one has not finished.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions? Thank you for any help.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Merlin
>
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Diogo Neves
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