On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:04:07PM -0700, Chris W. Parker wrote: > i'm basically just writing a simple mailing list manager in php. Is there a reason why you're writing your own mailing list manager when there are good ones out there? Writing a mailing list manager is *hard*. Handling bounces is *hard*. Have you looked at mailman to see if it would do the job for you? I've seen way too many bad implementations of mailing list managers and the results are usually very bad - inefficient or no spooling, bad bounce handling (or worse, no bounce handling at all), and an inability to do proper logging. Remember that with today's anti-spam laws, the onus is on you to ensure that the people who are on the list are supposed to be there and that they haven't asked you to leave them alone. > ultimately i want to be able to send emails to any number of recipients > in my database. You can easily synchronize the list from the database with the internal lists that mailman uses (sync_members). "Any number" could be large number. Writing your own mailing list manager for more than a handfull of users is going to overwhelm you (or you'll more than likely get it wrong). -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
