Hello Guy
I've yust a question to you:
Does have the Mails the recipient's name? When not, why do you send 50k time
a mail? I mean, I would create some lists, for every possibility, like "list
a", "list b+c", "list a+b+c" and so on, and then send them one mail to this
list, so you have to execute blat only few times.
What do others think about that? Is this a solution? I really have no clue
what do to with bouncing mails...
Enjoy the day
Rog
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Isabel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 February 2001 23:39
To: IMail Forum
Subject: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?
Greetings, IMail Forum members,
I have been tasked with an "interesting challenge". I work for a
large
Canadian university and our Development and Alumni Relations
department
would like to send personalized newsletters once a month to about
50,000
constituents, each message averaging about 4 KB, thus about 200 MB
to
deliver in total.
For the sake of simplicity, assume that there are only 3 topics of
interest:
A (Science), B (Sports) and C (Arts). In reality, it is more like
25
topics. Each recipient has notified the department of the topics in
which
they are interested. For instance: A+B, A+C, B only, etc.
A colleague of mine is writing a program that will output a list
that will
have one row per recipient showing the e-mail address and their
topic(s) of
choice. The program could also output a text file containing the
"collage"
of appropriate topical sections for each recipient, thus making
available
the entire body of the text to be sent to him/her.
Three questions (for now!):
1. Is there a clever way in IMail Server 6.05a of using the list
server
function, program aliases or perhaps IMAIL1.EXE in some combination
to
achieve this?
2. Would writing another program that calls IMAIL1.EXE (or perhaps
BLAT.EXE;
by the way, which one is more efficient?) that goes through the
list/table
created by the aforementioned program to e-mail each recipient with
the
proper text body be a viable solution?
3. In either case, what hardware would you recommend for such a list
server?
Which OS (Windows NT 4.0, W2K Server, W2K Advanced Server)?
I know that LISTSERV in combination with LSMTP, both available from
L-Soft
International (http://www.lsoft.com/, specifically
http://www.lsoft.com/products/default.asp?item=listserv_database),
could do
of on-the-fly mail merge and send to a single list of 50,000
recipients.
Unfortunately, this is not an option for us at the present time. We
do have
LISTSERV but not LSMTP.
Any advice and comments gratefully received :)
Guy
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