On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:47:53AM +0200, Juuso Töytäri said: > Hi list; > > Few days ago i started creating a newsletter program that should send > the same mail to multiple users. > But because we are talking HUGE amounts of mail (60,000 mail addresses) > i thought to ask your opinion > of what would be the smartest and fastest way to do this (mails should > leave in 2-4h). > > First i tought of creating mails straight to exim spool directory, but > had lots of trouble to create em without > exim saying: "Format error in spool file 1EwKaG-0002Dj-OV-H: size=855" > or something like that. > > Then i tought of sending mails via perl script using sendmail. But is > this opinion fast enough. > > The problem of this is that it is pretty hard to test this program > because i just cant send test-messages to > 60,000 users. > > Hope you can give me some clues on how to continue with this project.
Have you looked at mailing list software? Some of it is quite good, and quite fast. I understand 60K is a lot, but usually, there is no reason to reinvent the wheel. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | If it ain't baroque, don't phiques it. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
