On 11/24/99 7:27 PM, Itai Tavor at itavor@bigpond.net.au wrote:
Hi,
I need to add a newsletter feature to a Zope site. Interested people will be able to register their email addresses, and the newsletter will be mailed to all addresses every 1-2 weeks. The number of recipients could potentially have 4 zeroes in it (and no, it won't be 0000).
This isn't that large for a one-way mailing.
What would be the best way to do the mailing? Use mailhost with a very long recipient list? Call mailhost once for every recipient? Use some external tool to do the mailing?
Gads, I'd never use mailhost for this kind of thing :-) I would recommend two seperate issues be address: 1. Find a mailer that's reasonably fast (Sendmail is "ok", but Postfix is 10x faster in my testing, and Qmail is close to that. I prefer Postfix because of the author's reputation in the security world.) 2. Build the list of people to be mailed to. You really don't need a MLM for this, although surely you could use one. It won't add a whole lot of value. You might look at the bulk-mailer code for Majordomo or Mailman however. I'd feed it with a flat file that you build when you want to mail things out. Or I'd use an external relational database to maintain this. Either way is pretty easy. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli@digicool.com http://www.digicool.com