Re: Setting up group mailer
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:34:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Setting up group mailer | ||
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In article <3C6B62ED.8B6E1001@phantomcougar.com>,
phantom@phantomcougar.com says...
> I am planning a script that will send mail to all my clients
> (potentially up to 10000, even more clients)... I figured I can loop a
> mailer script for every client (I don't want to have more than one email
> address per message in the recipient field).
>
> Any special advise or pages I could view for help or is looping a mailer
> script acceptable? I know I had one in ASP once upon a time and the
> script was so slow that it would mail about 100 messages in a minute and
> the script would time out quickly before I was done.
>
> Thanks.
This topic seems to come up quite regularly; if you have a look back over
the archives I think you will find that the general opinion is that you
should use a dedicated package for mass mailing. qmail/ezmlm is one such
package which can use a mysql database if required.
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David Robley
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