Re: [Exim] php & exim for newsletter bulk mail

You can write scripts directly in PHP. Since 4.2.3 PHP has shipped
with a cli version of the executable which is appropriate/useful for
scripting. I would probably recommend feeding mails to exim using the
Net_SMTP class from PEAR, though contrary to other posters opinions,
10,000 is a small number and repeated execution of mail() would
probably suffice fine.


On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 02:04 PM, James Fassett wrote:

>> can you do any perl/python on your system? you could have php write a
>> datafile, and a perl/python cronjob checks to see if its there and
>> then
>> does all the processing.
>
> That's a good idea; however I am in the situation where I can't set
> that up
> just yet. In fact, I need a solution by the end of today that will
> adequately handle this. (by adequately I mean just barely)
>
> PHP timeout issues are not a problem (you can set it to any arbitrary
> value
> as a config setting) and the re-fresh solution is an old stand-by.
>
> I was hoping exim could read some sort of queue file that I could have
> php
> generate.
>
> Creating my own queue file / Perl / cron solution to feed exim is the
> type
> of thing I amy not be able to do in 1 day.
>
> Thank you kindly for the advice.
>
> James.