On 9/7/05, J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I told a friend I would try to help him set up a little database that sends email to a list of opt-in customers. To begin with there will only be a few names, but he is hoping that business will grow and there will be a few thousand eventually. I thought I'd just set up a simple stack that uses the excellent libSMTP to send the emails. To protect each customer's privacy, we'd prefer that emails are sent out individually, or else in some way that doesn't display the other email addresses. That means we can't use CC lists. We could use BCC instead but then the recipient's name wouldn't be in the "To" field and some spam filters might block it. If we send each email individually it could conceivably take a long time when the list gets larger, and spewing a lot of email at once could trigger an ISP's spammer alert. Does anyone know how many emails it takes before you look like a spammer? What's the best way to handle a private mailing like this?
I made such a setup for a client to distribute information for a conference a couple years ago. There were a few hundred people on the list. It worked fine but the sending process was kinda slow (sending mail individually). If doing it now, I would just use a mailing list program to do it. They are ready to use and some even free (macjordomo works just for for me :) and they know how to handle such things, including bounces, automatic removal, etc etc. It is conceivable to use rev-based cgi as a web-based front end, but it's probably not needed.
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