[enchen]

I use this loop to pull emails from my DB and send them one by one:

PHP Code:

$mailproblem = "";

if (!@mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))

{

$mailproblem = $front_nonewsmail;

}

/* and to the rest of the users... */

$result = $db->sendnewsletter();

   if (!empty($result)) {

      while ( list($key,$val)=each($result) ) {

      $useremail = stripslashes($val["email"]);

      @mail($useremail, $subject, $message, $headers);

      }

   }

$successmessage = $admin_successmessage;

} 

Is it possible to add a delay between each email being sent in order to reduce serverload?? So that you throttle it to at the very least sending 1 email every 6 seconds or so...

[mousegu]

PHP function sleep();
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php

[enchen]

Originally Posted by mousegu

PHP function sleep();
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php

Thanks!

Added a set_time_limit(3600); to avoid execution time error as well...

[End User]

Add the code between the "///////////////////////" to pause for 6 seconds between mails.

PHP Code:

$mailproblem = "";

if (!@mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))

{

$mailproblem = $front_nonewsmail;

}

/* and to the rest of the users... */

$result = $db->sendnewsletter();

   if (!empty($result)) {

      while ( list($key,$val)=each($result) ) {

     //////////////////////////////////////////////

     sleep(6);

     //////////////////////////////////////////////

      $useremail = stripslashes($val["email"]);

      @mail($useremail, $subject, $message, $headers);

      }

   }

$successmessage = $admin_successmessage;

}