Sending a large number of emails

[eluser]mrh[/eluser]
Hi Philipp,

Thanks for a wonderful answer. Ok I've basically got it working. I have no idea yet on what a good "load" would be. I'm going to have to play with this with some demo data.

I used your idea of the wGet. I was having trouble on this host getting a direct call to php to accept the right arguments. The wGet works perfect every time.

So the process I decided to follow was this:

When a project wants to send an email I ended up copying the email subject, content and then looping through the donor table for the project and creating what I called a task record. So each task record holds everything needed to do one task.

My cron job calls a task processor. This looks in the task table and executes 75 tasks at a time. I'm wondering if that is too many. I guess I need try a few things and see.

Anyway your help was amazing. Thank you!