Re: mailing list software

Addressed to: "Jason Dulberg" <jdulberg@nas.net> php-db@lists.php.net ** Reply to note from "Jason Dulberg" <jdulberg@nas.net> Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:22:31 -0400 > > I'm running majordomo on my clients server with about 100,000 users > subscribed for a bi-monthly newsletter. Problem is that it often craps > out at around 15,000 so I now have to break it up into chunks and > manually send each chunk out -- this is quite tediuos. > > I've been looking around for a replacement script and I was wondering > if any of you could suggest a mailing list script that will handle > such a large list all at once. I've been looking at php/mysql > solutions. > Have you looked at Qmail + ezmlm? I've been using qmail for a couple years with no problems, and ezmlm is designed to work with it. One of the big brags they have is how well it handles LARGE mailing lists. http://www.qmail.org ------------------------------------------------ ezmlm doesn't mind huge mailing lists. Lists don't even have to fit into memory. ezmlm hashes the subscription list into a set of independent files so that it can handle subscription requests quickly. ezmlm uses qmail for blazingly fast parallel SMTP deliveries. ezmlm sets up joe-sos-subscribe and joe-sos-unsubscribe for automatic processing of subscription and unsubscription requests. Any message to joe-sos-subscribe will work; Joe doesn't have to explain any tricky command formats. ezmlm will send back instructions if a subscriber sends a message to joe-sos-request or joe-sos-help. ------------------------------------------------ It would not be hard to make a php program to subscribe/unsubscribe readers, just have it send a email to the right address. It has been done without php by a couple of people already. Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists www.developersdesk.com