sending emails from a website monthly

juanbobo · 05-01-2005, 06:22 AM

How could I automatically send an email to all clients monthy from my website if it were hosted remotely?

jamie_barrow · 05-01-2005, 06:35 AM

I think you should post more info about the host - is it Linux/WinNT, does it use PHP,ASP, etc.

juanbobo · 05-01-2005, 08:16 AM

I plan to use Linux hosting and program in php.

simon_w · 05-02-2005, 06:12 AM

The host should have their own mail server which they've configured PHP to use. If so you can simply use PHP's Mail() function. Failing that, use PHPMailer.

juanbobo · 05-03-2005, 02:51 AM

It's not sending mail that's the problem, it is timing it.

simon_w · 05-03-2005, 06:06 AM

Oh, okay then. Assuming you can SSH to the web server, just stick an entry in crontab to execute your php script whenever you need