I concur. We do this often. It saves me from the marketing department's
requests to let everyone know about "great new features." There's no need
to mail to someone who never reads their mail. This keeps you from that
hassle.
--
Michael Boyiazis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 10,000 outbound emails
>
>
> Bill Parker writes:
> > I have qmail running on a pent-133 w/32MB, kernel 2.2.14,
> > tcpserver, qmailadmin, vpopmail, amavis-0.2.1, and NAI's anti-virus
> > software. Everything is working just fine, however, one of the
> > supervisors wants to send 10,000 emails through the box to various
> > users (aka a mass mailing). Does anyone see any problems with
> > doing something like this, or would you need more information about
> > my current configuration of qmail?
>
> You'd do better to use my qmail-popbull program (on www.qmail.org).
> That way, you only ever have one copy of the piece of email, and only
> the people who read their mail ever see it. It also lets you tell
> people about temporal things, and then after the time has passed, you
> can remove the bulletin.
>
