Gary Stainburn wrote:
Hi Folks.
I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution
that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients
on this list.
Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS Outlook which he
maintains himself. He then sends himself an email every week containing the
stock list and BCC's the distribution list. Other than generating an
excessive load on my EXIM server there has been no real down side to this as
it meant that I didn't have to get involved.
However, we are now experiencing problems and I would like a better solution.
I need a system that will distribute the email to each recipient as a seperate
message, and if possible will monitor and highlight any emails that fail.
Can anyone suggest a way of doing this? Ideally I would like the salesman to
still be able to administer it but that isn't essential. If it is a system
that is either text file or database driven I can create a UI that he would
be able to use.
I did a perl script, reads all of the addresses from a list, the mail text from
another, command line options to control the number of recipients per connect
(sounds like you want one) and time between connects. Also copes with the fact
that the master list gets updated by someone else, so I have a file of addresses
to rewrite to something working and one of addresses to just drop, even though
they're in the master list. Set the From header to a unique value so you can
isolate the bounces, or use a unique string in the subject, I tried "Bounces-To"
and found little sites use dumb mail programs which use from even if sender or
bounces-to are present.
Enjoy.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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