email timeout

[Bob Bedford]

I've seen many implementations of the timeout hack when sending a lot of
emails.

I can't set the timeout variable, as it's timeout(0) doesn't work, I still
have 30 seconds.

I've to send many emails with attached file, so it will take more time when
the server is hardloaded, and I can't have a Cron job to do things.

What's the best way ? the simplest seems to be the "location" to the script
itself with in the parameter the last email used for sending the email.
It's viable ? should it work always ? Should I instead refresh at any sent
email ? what's the best way, on the server side I can change nothing !

Thanks in advance.

Bob

[Mike Willbanks]

Bob,

Is set_time_limit( ) what you are looking for? timeout() is not a function.

The best was would seem to basically sent the email out to multiples at
once as you can do that if you interface with the mailer itself.

Then what you might think about doing is looping and increasing the
timeout per each item ex:

while(list($key , $val) = each($emails)) {
set_time_limit( 3); //give it 3 seconds per each email
mail(....);
}

You could try set_time_limit( 0) but I wouldn't recommend that as if you
have something caught in a loop somewhere and it is just hanging you
might as well let it terminate.

Mike

I've seen many implementations of the timeout hack when sending a lot of
emails.

I can't set the timeout variable, as it's timeout(0) doesn't work, I
still have 30 seconds.

I've to send many emails with attached file, so it will take more time
when the server is hardloaded, and I can't have a Cron job to do things.

What's the best way ? the simplest seems to be the "location" to the
script itself with in the parameter the last email used for sending the
email.
It's viable ? should it work always ? Should I instead refresh at any
sent email ? what's the best way, on the server side I can change nothing !

Thanks in advance.

Bob

[Bob Bedford]

Hi Mike, thanks for answer,

Is set_time_limit( ) what you are looking for? timeout() is not a
function.

Yes, it's set_time_limit( ), but as said, I can't use this function, as it
has been disabled by the hosting service, for avoiding infinite loop that
may slow down entire server (mutual server for now, but planning to go
dedicated).

So I must find a solution without using set_time_limit. ... and sending one
email to any address using it in TO: field, as putting in BCC will result
many emails will be simply be detected as spam.

Any idea ?