Why not use ZClient to make the request to do the mailout? It can just happily sit there for half a day (or whatever) chugging along, without screwing up if your browser goes away.
Have considered it : but a script employing ZClient takes me back to python scripts (which I already have). Admittedly, Zope + ZClient would make it easier to manage than my current system but it would still require me initiating this by logging in via ssh. What I didn't mention is that I'm incredibly lazy and am currently the bottleneck in our company for mailing news- -letters. :( I wish to create a system (hopefully around Zope) so that our content-author or editor can write the newsletter, paste it into a textarea in a form, add a subject line and hit "send". It will then start to be sent to the 200,000+ members. Then the said content-author could check back regularly to see the status (again via a web-page). But you've got me thinking (which is always a start), Anthony, perhaps the following will work : 1. Rewrite my scripts to use ZClient.. I can continue to initialize this from the shell for the time being. This script already logs the progress in case of crash. 2. Add a web-interface to it using os.popen or something equally kludgy. I'll play with that until better ideas come along - but it seems like a useful product to build properly so I do welcome any input regarding features etc. Thank you, chas