Inserting a time delay into a mail function

[MunsonBurner]

mail($ToName." <".$ToEmail.">",$ToSubject, $Message, "From: ".$from." <".$Email.">");

 

 

This is my mail function, which works fine and sends an email automatically to $ToEmail.

 

I would like to delay the sending of the email by 15 minutes to mimic a real person response as opposed to an automatic one.

 

Any ideas?

 

Cheers

[bluejay002]

you can use sleep() but is this an automailer? why would you need to make one to wait? well, you can make a cron job for sending mail then check the log of the mail to send it 15 mins right after.

 

but am just curious, why would you want to do that?

[MunsonBurner]

The user will enter their details in a form and then receive a "personal" email 15 minutes after. I'm trying to get my head around cron jobs. How does this sleep function work?

 

Cheers

[bluejay002]

sleep() allows your program to halt for a while its execution in terms of seconds, say sleep(60) will halt for 1 minute.

 

but this is not a good idea for 15 mins since its still occupying the server until its done so i dont really recommend it. maybe make a timestamp on the mail being sent... then with cronjob, check the timestamp, send if about 15 mins have passed.

 

but why would you want to do this... i feel its somehow unnecessary, unless you have good point for doing so.

[MunsonBurner]

The client does not want the user to receive an email automatically, only after 15 minutes so it seems like someone wrote a reply to their enquiry there and then (for effect really).

 

I have the basic cron task here but I don't know how to activate it (where to put it?) ;

 

57 14 * * * /www/response/cgi-bin/response_info.php

58 14 * * * /www/response/cgi-bin/response_info.php

59 14 * * * /www/response/cgi-bin/response_info.php

0  15 * * *  /www/response/cgi-bin/response_info.php

01 15 * * * /www/response/cgi-bin/response_info.php

 

 

cheers