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Hello:

I have created an application to read email addresses from a list and to
send emails. The problem now I am facing is, if the list is very long then
I am getting an error message in the browser "Server Timed Out". How can I
display a confirmation message and continue sending the emails from the
server? That is, trigger a separate script (not related to browser) on the
server which handles the emails and then return a success message. Can
anybody help me to find out a logic or script on this.


Sheni R Meledath
sheni@cyber-gear.com

You can send some output now and then to the browser (and flush()), or
you can send the emails in steps, send first 300 emails, output a form
with hidden fields (and text "sending emails") containing the offset and
use onload="window.document.forms[0].submit()" to send the form and so on.

Sheni R. Meledath wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I have created an application to read email addresses from a list and to
> send emails. The problem now I am facing is, if the list is very long
> then I am getting an error message in the browser "Server Timed Out".
> How can I display a confirmation message and continue sending the emails
> from the server? That is, trigger a separate script (not related to
> browser) on the server which handles the emails and then return a
> success message. Can anybody help me to find out a logic or script on this.
>
>
> Sheni R Meledath
> sheni@cyber-gear.com