Re: Personalized emails with SendMail

You might like to look into the "-odq" option for sendmail. This queues the email for delivery later and therefore stops your script from hanging whilst thousands of emails are send.

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Re: Re: Personalized emails with SendMail by Elliott (Pilgrim) on Oct 08, 2001 at 15:37 UTC
That looks like it would solve both problems: neither keeping the user waiting nor flooding the server with forked processes. Have I understood correctly? (I love this place! Where else on the planet can one ask such esoteric questions and get answers that are not only instant but right!?!?! Thank you.)	[reply]