Re: [PHP] High-Volume Newsletter Techniques?

[Larry Jeannette II]

This is something I am curious about also. We are currently building a
system to allow people to maintain/send out newsletters (40,000+). We have
done some initial testing of the process (which uses the mail() function)
and have found that it takes about 30 - 40 minutes to process 4000 emails.

Right now we are doing this through a web page so we can watch the process,
I myself, was perplexed when the script didn't timeout after 2.5 minutes
(the timeout period set in php.ini) and actually finished the process. My
question is: will this still be true when sending out 40,000 emails and the
process takes 5 - 6 hours? Like Sondra, I don't really want to anger
thousands of people testing this thing out.

Larry Jeannette



Sondra Russell writes:

 Yes, I saw the discussion a few days earlier on this topic, but I'm 
 wondering if there is still some unmined wisdom out there about 
 building a script that sends a newsletter out to 25,000+ people 
 The very impressive class I found (phpmailer-1.41) looked great, but 
 it didn't *directly* address the high-volume issue in the readme so 
 I'm still a little nervous.
 
 And, unfortunately, it's not one of those types of technical 
 challenges you can keep testing over and over without seriously 
 annoying the first 100 or so people on your list who *do* get the 
 email before the script times out.
 
 I think the amount of trash email I get each day proves that vast 
 mailings aren't TOO difficult, but I think I could use a little 
 wisdom before I give it a shot.
 
 Anyone?  I'll buy you a coke!
 
 Thank you in advance,
 Sondra Russell
 
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Re: [PHP] getrusage() not supported

[Larry Jeannette II]

According to the docs, it says to check your systems man pages for
getrusage. Since they appear to referencing *nix system (no man in NT), my
guess is that NT does not support it. In fact, executing getrusage at the
NT command prompt gives the 'not recognized internal or external command'
error.

LRJ


Daniel Berwig writes:

 I'm trying to run a script in my server (IIS 5) that uses the function
 getrusage(), but it returns the following warning:
 
 Warning: getrusage() is not supported in this PHP build in file_name.php on
 line 377
 
 Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?
 
 Thanks in advance.
 
 
 
 
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