pickles
03-25-2003, 05:18 PM
Hi,
I have a potential customer that has asked for a News letter Manager. She has approx 8K members, that receive a daily devotion every day. This is an outbound only mailer (not really a listserver). She has asked me about writing a web front-end to manager the users, and create the news letter. This I can easily do with php and mysql. She wants a scheduler to broad half the list at one time during the day, and the other have at a different time (to address geographical/timezone issues).
(BTW: The list is an opt-in non marketing, 5 yr old operation with no spam complaints).
The scheduling piece is easy enough with a cron job and some light perl code. Here are my questions.
1) Using use Mail::Mailer; (a perl mod), what is the best way to broad cast the mail? I don't want to display everyones e-mail address. I've thought about using concatenating addresses on the bcc field and leaving the to field blank. If I do this what is a reasonable number of e-mail addresses to put in the bcc field?
2) Should I attempt to "loop" through the list, sending 1 e-mail each pass using the "to" field?
3) What kind of system resources would an operation like this use? I don't want to dog my machine for a single client.
Im open to alternative suggestions, pre-coded scripts....
Thanks in advance for the help,
Bob
I have a potential customer that has asked for a News letter Manager. She has approx 8K members, that receive a daily devotion every day. This is an outbound only mailer (not really a listserver). She has asked me about writing a web front-end to manager the users, and create the news letter. This I can easily do with php and mysql. She wants a scheduler to broad half the list at one time during the day, and the other have at a different time (to address geographical/timezone issues).
(BTW: The list is an opt-in non marketing, 5 yr old operation with no spam complaints).
The scheduling piece is easy enough with a cron job and some light perl code. Here are my questions.
1) Using use Mail::Mailer; (a perl mod), what is the best way to broad cast the mail? I don't want to display everyones e-mail address. I've thought about using concatenating addresses on the bcc field and leaving the to field blank. If I do this what is a reasonable number of e-mail addresses to put in the bcc field?
2) Should I attempt to "loop" through the list, sending 1 e-mail each pass using the "to" field?
3) What kind of system resources would an operation like this use? I don't want to dog my machine for a single client.
Im open to alternative suggestions, pre-coded scripts....
Thanks in advance for the help,
Bob