Hi,

I have a asp email script which uses cdosys to send emails with attahcments by iterating through a record set of 500 email addresses. However the script simply times out. I know you can increase the script timeout property in IIS but is there any other way of sending bulk emails with cdosys without it timing out?

Does anybody have an email script that can send mass emails efficiently?
Also how do you run such a script in background thread? Code samples would be appreciated.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

The real question here is "why" ?
Why would you want to send out 500 e-mails at any single instance?
Why not look at using sprocs in your database that can be scheduled as jobs to run.

Well its suppose to be done a the end of the day. The reason is to send out an alert for jobs that have been saved by the user that match their criteria which have been posted that day.

How do i use sprocs to do the above am using mySQL by the way?

Easier solution: DTS Package.

whats a dts package. I've searched the web and all it refers to is SQL server however like I mentioned in my previous post am using MySQL which is a completely different relational database to SQL server.

What about using Windows Hosting Script. would that work? I dont have much experience on it and cant find any tutorials on the net either. Dont suppose you have any experience with it and how i could achieve the above task?

First of all check what is the server time out value. Put on top of the asp page you are running the following code.
Then after determining what is the current timeout value, you can replace the above added code with the following:
Remember the value is equal to no. of seconds.

Hope this Helps...

Khurram.

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