Re: Sending an e-mail to 1,000 people

Hello, Lars Wilhelmsen wrote: > > "Ben Clumeck" <bclumeck@home.com> wrote in message > news:NFBBJJIAAGFCPNFKMPGOMEPKCEAA.bclumeck@home.com... > > I would like to send an e-mail (the same e-mail) to 1,000 different > people. > > I want each persons name to be in the "To:" field. Is there a way to > > customize it to where it can say Dear____ (having a different persons name > > corresponding to an e-mail address) so that it looks customized. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ben > > > > What you are describing is called SPAMMING, something > we really, really dislike. You are confused. Spamming is sending the same message to the same person more than once. What I think you mean is unsolicited e-mail. The original poster did not mention whether the people he wants to mail want to receive his messages, so you can't assume that is necessarily unsolicited. > Answer to your question: yes, it's pretty simple, but PHP > is generally a language for web applications, I think Perl > is more suited for your needs. There is absolutely nothing in sending messages to thousands of users in Perl that can't be done in PHP. I am the developer of the PHP classes site. The site sends out regularly notifications about new classes made available to about 30.000 users. Each notification on takes 4 seconds to queue. The local mail server takes care of delivery. > And no, I do not want to teach anyone how to send 1,000 > email to 1,000 different persons. So why bother posting?!? Regards, Manuel Lemos