Server.ScriptTimeout upper limit

[Caradog]

Can anyone tell me if there is an maximum limit on the time I can set for an ASP script to time out?

I've written an app to send e-mails stored in a databse (max of 450 of them) by a user via a web form using JMAIL as the mail sender. Problem is, the script times out quite quickly and I've found it takes between 4.7 and 10 seconds to send 1 mail, so 450x10 is 75 mins

Other method I suppose could be to write a self-refreshing script to send mails in batches of ten setting the timeout on each page to 200 seconds. Hhmmm...

Any suggestions/ideas guys?

 

[DannyB]

Caradog,

Two suggestions :
A) try to raise the timeout, on one hand and maybe try sending batches of 5 or 10 mails, and re-invoking the page with some form of counter.

B) Try using maybe MSMQ to load your mails, from an event fired by your asp page. With a component listening to the queue status, that would fire the component that would actually send the mails. This way you would just use the asp page to set things off.