NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Matt Juszczak wrote:

> > This is a good suggestion, I'd also recommend logging the email text
> > (database or text log) and putting some kind of sanity check on the
> > number of emails your app is sending out at any time.
> 
> What you are both suggesting makes sense, but correct me if I'm wrong, it 
> duplicates email functionality.  Our front ends are programmed in two 
> different languages (forgot to mention that), so if I keep the active 
> emails in the front end web code, I have to write the code twice, plus I 
> have to code backend functionality to allow passive emails to go out (an 
> example of a passive email: someone posts a reply to a thread, and I want 
> to alert all of the users who are subscribed to that thread that there's a 
> new message - too much to put in the code I would think, as there could be 
> 1000's of subscribers).

Of course, you would send out the emails in batches right? If you're using 
an MTA to do the heavy lifting (and you probably should be), then queuing 
emails via a batch process is better.



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