Hi to all, I have been looking through the forums for an answer to my question and believe that Random has an answer to my question, but to be honest I'm only a beginner and cannot adapt his code to my uses, so if somebody could spare a little code my way I'd be amazingly grateful. So here goes my problem. I runa a mailing list (approx 25,000 subscribers) with a perl script. No problems until i try to mail everybody and at this point the script times out after about 10,000 mails forcing me to send the mail in three batches. This is a little bit of a pain. Is there a way of automating the process. Here is the code i use: 
...beginning of subroutine
$pid = fork();
$pid;
if ($pid) {
print "The mailing has began";
exit(0);
}
else {
close (STDOUT);
...actual mailing

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Now, I am convinced that it is possible to avoid the timeout problem using multiple forks. Is that a possibility? Or is there something better? Thanks a lot for your help, Adrien

In reply to fork and mailing lists by Anonymous Monk

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