Mass Mail Help?

[eluser]Rogier[/eluser]
Hi there,

I'm using the swiftmailer library as a plugin in codeigniter but i'm wondering how to send emails but let the server take care of the rest. What i mean is that when i hit the send button and it's about to send a 1000 emails i can close the browse window and my server will finish the job.

Does anyone know how to do this? And does anyone know how to schedule task the mass sending? Make a cron job or something like that?

Thanks,

Rogier

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
You would need to use a cron job!

There is a cron handle in the CodeIgniter WIKI and on these forums.

InsiteFX

[eluser]Rogier[/eluser]
Well is there another way? Cause phplist does it without a cronjob i believe so.... Can't find it in the code though.. When you install phplist you don't need to set a cronjob and you can't set a cronjob via PHP am i right?

[eluser]cideveloper[/eluser]
[quote author="rogerstreets" date="1294159671"]Cause phplist does it without a cronjob i believe so[/quote]

Actually it looks like they do use cron job. Alternatives to processing the queue manually.

cron can be set on your server. most hosting companies do allow you to set cron jobs using the web hosting control panel.

Read this to get CI to work with the command line