On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Gregory Haley wrote:
i was one of the participants in the recent discussion of zope bulk mail. i'm wondering about the mechanics of sending the work of the mail to the actual sendmail server outside of zope. would i do that by creating an external method which is program/script that accepts the data from zope and then passes them to the mail server? any suggestions or details would be most appreciated.
got me ;) I have not done this myself (yet), and I have firtshand knowledge of majordomo list management only. but I could think of something like this: a) very simple create a mailing list in your listmanager and have zope send the email to the list's address. voila, the rest is taken care of by the listmanager. b) a bit more involved if your addressee list changes (you create it on the fly with zope somehow) you could pass that list to the listmanager before sending email to it. in majordomo, a mailing list is simply a textfile containing a line for each subscriber's email address. make an external function to create that file and proceed like in a). HTH, Stefan