I've tried a few different methods of trying to send out e-mails for the
company I work for but I've run into a number of obstacles. Each way I've
tried, I've noticed that the script hits these periods of inactivity which I
don't exactly know is the cause. I've used 3 different modules and I even
wrote to Sendmail itself yet I still hit these time snags.
The company I work for does opt-in e-mailing. I've tried using the
Bulkmail module but the clients did not like seeing the "from" or "to"
(can't remember which) as coming from a list. They wanted things more
personalized. Next I tried sending mail by opening a pipe into Sendmail
itself (with the queue only and no DNS lookup flags set) and it still bogged
down -- meaning it took longer than our current way of sending (we currently
use an ActiveX component on a Windows machine and relay to our mailservers).
I've also tried the Sender and SMTP modules with mixed results. With the
Sender module I hit a 10k mark one hour then the next it dropped all the way
down to 2-3k.
The basic concept of my script is to open a database that contains the
info and read in each e-mail to process at a time. Next it customizes the
e-mail and finally sends it out using the Sender module. When the call to
the Sender module finishes, it removes the entry from the database and
continues.
So after this long beginning, can anyone tell me if it is possible to
send out somewhere around 15k email messages in an hours time? I know there
are certain limitations placed on the ability to send such as connection,
operating system and hardware. We are currently running Redhat 7.3, with a
T1 connection (exact throughput I don't know off the top of my head) and I'm
using Perl 5.8.0. Any help would be appreciated since I seem to be getting
nowhere fast.
Jessee
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