On 29/08/2005, at 9:49 AM, Alexander Else wrote:
Hi all,
A task has been allocated to me to send out a mail (possibly with a
word/pdf
attachment) to a few hundred email addresses in an hour and a
half. As i don't
have a lot of time to do my homework on this one, i hope someone
can point me to
one or two options for a script that will do this for me.
I know it's a pretty trivial task to write one but the limited time
frame and
apparent urgency of it makes me want to just pick one up and make
sure it works
for me before then, rather than write my own and risk missing that
tiny-but-critical flaw.
When you say 'sending it out in an hour and a half', is that just the
submission of the email, or actual delivery?
There's little chance you can ensure that it's going to be delivered
within that time period, but submission into the mail system's fairly
straight forward.
One hurdle you're going to face is getting classified as bulk email
(or worse, spam). I'm assuming that you're doing something nice and
these people actually WANT your email to be sent to them.
I'd check MIME:Lite for PERL, but you've not stated what languages
you're proficient in, so that may not be of use to you.
--
Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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