On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:36:27 PDT Joel Fentin wrote:
>The goal is to send emails to a group of members of a website. Yahoo and 
>perhaps others have spam protections in place where they delay the 
>sending of the emails which causes a browser timeout. One way around 
>this (found with some experimenting) is:

Overall, you will be suffering the same situation as your mailing list
grows, then incrementing the  client timeout on your apache server will be
required.

I'll suggest to change your approach to something like the following:

1. Edit the message using an HTML form
2. Post the content to your perl CGI
3. Your perl code saves the content and flags a new message
4. Something like a cron job could be monitoring the flag and send the
message if necessary
5. After sending messages it updated the flag (with a date stamp possible?)

This way you won't be waiting for the emails being sent. You'll just have
to wait for the next minute and have your HTML form to update every X secs
to display the resulting message from your cron script.

Just my $0.02

Regards,
Urivan A. Flores Saaib
CiberLinux Networking
Email: saaib@ciberlinux.net