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Will the mass email work in php for about 10,000 users? I know there is a timeout limit for php. Have you tried this one?

Will

Not sure if it will send that many or not. I'm using bcc to send the emails in the php port. If there is a timeout issue will probably need to break it down into chunks of 1000 users or so. Once you start using the PHP version, if you do, let me know if there is a problem with this and I'll work on making these changes.

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Scream
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Well I am afraid to try it to my user list in case it would take me a few tries and I would end up sending multiple emails to some users.

What I do know is by default php has a max time limit of 30 seconds in php.ini.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
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max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds (UNIX only)

I suppose I could change this, but I assume a lot of users who do not run their own server cannot. I believe sending out to even over a few thousand would take longer than 30 seconds, but I really dont know.

Will

Check out http://www.php.net/manual/html/function.set-time-limit.html. That page tells you how you can change the execution time limit, provided PHP isn't running in safe mode. That should do what you're looking to do.

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