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by marcuseby
Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:42 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Queued or Delayed Email, is it possible with PHP?
Replies: 7
Views: 4476

Why not everytime someone wants to send an email, stick it into MySQL with a date / time field. Then use a cron job: http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html To run a script once an hour or whatever that pulls all the stuff thats not sent from MySQL and sends it...? Thanks Superwor...
by marcuseby
Wed Mar 19, 2003 4:08 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Queued or Delayed Email, is it possible with PHP?
Replies: 7
Views: 4476

pootergeist wrote: You'd want to run a cron job on an SMTP (or whatever mail protocol you use) scanner script and maybe one on a mailing list manager.
cron job, I'm sorry, but I might need a little more hand holding than that.
:oops:

Whats a cron job, and how much does it cost?

:P

m.
by marcuseby
Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:47 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Queued or Delayed Email, is it possible with PHP?
Replies: 7
Views: 4476

Queued or Delayed Email, is it possible with PHP?

I've been looking through G o o g l e like a madman. Seen around 300 pages, and nothing on how to send emails via PHP queued or delayed. Does anyone know of a class, component, installation, something, that solves this problem. I want my emails to be sent at specific times, and I don't own my own se...