[Zope-dev] Best way to email a newsletter to thousands of recipients from a Zope site Zope site

[Patrick Phalen]

[Itai Tavor, on Wed, 24 Nov 1999]
:: 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).
:: 
:: 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?

I think I've looked at everything available and am convinced that Dan
Bernstein's qmail/ezmlm offer the best performance, security and ease of
maintenance. Have a look at www.qmail.org and www.ezmlm.org (qmail is
the MTA and ezmlm the mailing list manager -- they work hand in hand).

You can run a dedicated list server with the qmail/ezmlm combo on a
castoff 486 machine under Linux and it will be plenty fast enough for
your needs. I think both apache.org and redhat.com still handle all
their mail on low-end Pentiums with qmail.

I administer 20 mailing lists this way and never have to touch them.