[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by snoopy5

Hi

this would be a problem for me. I need this e-mail notification sent out without a user visiting the page to refresh it.

I have a few boards, that have not enough traffic. So maybe one user every 2 days finds the forum. Sending just the e-mail out, after 2 days of the original posting would be too late.

I know of a different forum-software (www.discusware.com), that has this e-mail reply functionality too. And they use also cronjobs for it. But I can schedule the cronjob, that because of the cronjob every 3 minutes it checks for new messages (no matter whether somebody hit the forum or not) and sends the e-mail out.

A. Could you implement this too?

B.

I need always to send out e-mails for around 500-1000 users with this for each vb-borad I have on the same server. I have several vb-boards on the same server. And each board needs to send those e-mail to this number of people for each vb-board.

Would be the mailserver/serverload because of this to be too high? I use a dedicated server.

Thanks in advance

I do have a beta script that could be potentially run from the local server on a cron job. My expertise on setting up cron jobs for a server is nil though. If you have knowledge about those I'll send you the file I have that can be run from any directory. Just PM me your email address.

As for the mailserver/serverload. I can't say for sure, depends on your server settings. I believe the individual that experienced an issue when sending 1000 emails was on a VPS, so I would venture to say that on a dedicated server you will likely have no issues.

Either way the script would not fail, only the server could. If you set up vbmail to run in batches of a few hundred though, I think you would definately be rockin strong.