Fork off grandchildren to do the mailing, and return from the CGI immediately. Give em a URL that can check up on the progress of the children if you want to get fancy. A LOT of clients will time out at two minutes, a lot of IP stacks at 2-5 minutes, apache is pretty stubborn but it too will freak after a while.

Making a CGI user wait for the status of a serious bulkmail is nuts. And worse, if they hit esc and reload to try and "get it to work" well then you had better be debouncing multiple submits or your mail users aren't going to be happy.

extremely <== has done all this wrong before =)

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In reply to Re: Getting Close and Cuddly with the sleep() function by extremely
in thread Getting Close and Cuddly with the sleep() function by skazat

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