[TriLUG] Sendmail questions:

[Ron Young]

Thanks Chris.  The emails are currently produced by software purchased to
run the shop.  The database is internal to that app and it has features to
print mailing labels, email newsletters, etc built in.  Once you click the
last button that will begin a process of sending emails to all those chosen
in the list.
To your point, I could access the database directly with php/odbtp and
extract the list of email addresses myself and trigger mailings with the
script you mention.

Well worth consideration!!  Thanks.


Ron Young
919-621-9015


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Christopher L Merrill <
chris at webperformance.com> wrote:

> Forgive me for perhaps stating the obvious solution that you have already
> considered - why not just split the list into sub-lists with no more
> than 500 in each list, then send one list every hour?
>
> Some simple scripting should be able to achieve that somewhat painlessly
> and still be smart enough to handle increasing list sizes.
>
> Chris
>
>
> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Ron Young <ronyoung at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >>> I have a situation where we need to send about 800 emails to a customer
> >> list
> >>> about every quarter.  The email server is located at a commercial site,
> >>> iPower that also hosts the web site.  They have a 500 email per hour
> >> limit
> >>> when they lock the email account.
>
>
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