andrestander

Thanks a lot for the help. I'll look these up now.

I need to send a newsletter to my subscribers via Mail. But I don't want to spam anyone or get blacklisted by hotmail or yahoo. So every time the loop executes 500 times(sends 500 email), I delay it a whole hour through sleep(). I use the PHP mail() function too.

heya all this is my first post, Basically, I have a script that I want it to execute a certain loop that will go on for days or several hours. The delay in execution is intentional and is implemented using the sleep() function. If entered the path to the script in the URL bar and executed it, after I close the tab, would it be still executing in the server? And how do I check it's progress (Like should I implement it to write its progress to a separate text file that I check daily for example)?? Thanks in advance.