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<DIV><FONT size=2>Am reading some interesting stuff now.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>There's an odq argument you can pass to sendmail, which adds
stuff to the mail queue without waiting to send,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>and there's a tutorial on Perl Maven for sending to multiple
addresses using Email::Stuffer without wasting memory creating multiple
objects...or so I gather from an initial skim read...</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=catalystgroup@unitedgames.co.uk
href="mailto:catalystgroup@unitedgames.co.uk">Andrew</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 04, 2015 9:03
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Catalyst] Sending 3000
emails.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Exim itself should be the queue and processor shouldn't
it?</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=lenjaffe@jaffesystems.com
href="mailto:lenjaffe@jaffesystems.com">Len Jaffe</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 04, 2015 8:48
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Catalyst] Sending 3000
emails.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Andrew <SPAN
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<DIV>If you're handing off the mail to exim, you're fine. Your
implementation is correct for your use case</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>---> Of course, I'm guessing I'm handing off to
exim - I should probably do something to
check!</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Look for Email::Sender configuration. It probably defaults to
sendmail, which is what you want.</DIV>
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<DIV>if the sign up for your service,</DIV>
<DIV>queue a "send them a welcome email" job,</DIV>
<DIV>and let the web request request return.</DIV>
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<DIV>Then a separate process:</DIV>
<DIV>sees that an email needs to be sent,</DIV></SPAN>
<DIV>generates the email,</DIV><SPAN class="">
<DIV>and hands it off to exim.</DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2>----> So what does the separate
process have to be? A process apart from my Catalyst app - like an
entirely different perl script that could be a cron job or something -
or can I return a response to the browser within my catalyst
subroutine, and then call a private catalyst subroutine to handle
the email sending?</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>What triggers the sending of the 3000? </DIV>
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<DIV>I use a table as a queue, and I write a program that loops over the
queue until no more work to do:<BR></DIV>
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<LI> read the least-recently-processed job from the queue that has
work to do
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<LI>determine work-to-do as unassigned. (PID is null)</LI></OL>
<LI>mark it as assigned
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<LI>i keep a pid column and update the pid into the record</LI></OL>
<LI>do the work
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<LI>the whole job of some slice</LI></OL>
<LI>if done,
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<LI>perform post job bookkeeping</LI></OL>
<LI>else
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<LI>update in-progress status (num_complete)
<LI>update PID = NULL
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<LI>so the job processor can come back too it.</LI></OL></LI></OL></LI></OL>
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<DIV>I use this algorithm to send 500 emails at a time (in RoR). After 500,
the job goes to the end of the queue, and the next job is
processed. </DIV>
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<DIV>My processor is a stand-alone script that is run from cron.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT><BR><FONT size=2>--->
And yes, after the quick fix, it wouldn't hurt to debug and see if there
are memory
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<DIV>That's the fun part. </DIV>
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