Yup, it will...
A good idea is to call exec() of a cgi script which sends email without time
outs.
CGI has it cute feature - never times out. I've seen it in some software.
Sincerely,
Maxim Maletsky
Founder, Chief Developer
PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins)
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From: Arnold Gamboa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:37 PM
To: Joe Stump
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] crontab help
thanks for the comment
let's just say i have 100k emails to send... don't you think that will drain
the system resources if i send it all at once even if you have usleep(300)
on each while?
your comment please.
> put a sleep(300); at the end of your while() loop - I did this on my mass
> mailer and it worked like a charm.
>
> --Joe
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:53:10PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote:
> > hi there.
> >
> > is there a way to tell crontab to do:
> >
> > "run script every 5 mins for 1 hour"..
> >
> > i have this mass email script that is so huge that i need it to chunk
into
> > records and make sure that it will run every 5 mins for 1 hour.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
>
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