Paul Smith wrote: > I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the > same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it > possible to accomplish it with Fedora? How big a database? Thing is, this sounds like bulk emailing: if it’s large enough that you want to automate this, it’s large enough to be considered bulk. That immediately raises two questions: * Have all your recipients *actively* requested this email? * is what you’re doing likely to get the attention of ISPs, and Google in particular? The large free email service providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and Google) have an ongoing problem with spammers using their services¹, and are taking a number of technical means to spot and stop this. You don’t want to fall foul of this, or you may find Google closing your account permanently. A database-fed burst of similar but slightly-different email is the sort of thing that they would look for. There’s a lot of potential for things to go wrong here, and you probably won’t get any support from Google. You might want to consider http://mailchimp.com/pricing/free/ : they do know what they’re doing, and they have a pretty good reputation. (I’m not connected with MailChimp, although I did recommend it to my company before we decided to keep bulk-mailing in-house.) Hope this helps, James. ¹ Especially the so-called Nigerian 419 spammers, who will pay third-world citizens to write and send emails through free email services: the constantly-differing texts make it harder to do content analysis spotting that these emails are spam. -- E-mail: james@ | 'Short for "Sic Transit Gloria Humanorum", which is Latin aprilcottage.co.uk | for "There goes the neighbourhood!"' | -- Menno Willemse -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
