Of course we are going to need a note from your mother that you aren't going to do any spamming ;-}

The simplest way to do this would be to have a counter in your loop so that you could have something like: 


...

my $number_of_emails_per_minute = 100;

..

my $time = time();

my $count = 0;

while(WHEREVER YOUR ADDRESSES ARE COMING FROM)
{

   # do whatever you do to send mail
    
   $count++;

   if ( $count == $number_of_emails_per_minute )
   {
      my $time_left = 60 - ( time() - $time );
      sleep $time_left;
      $time = time();
      $count = 0;
    }
}

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I haven't got Mail::Sendmail on here at the moment so I can't make a proper example I'm afraid

/J\

In reply to Re: Re: sending bulk emails in a specified time by gellyfish
in thread sending bulk emails in a specified time by fullyloaded

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