Re: [MacPerl] mass mailing

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 9:31 PM -0500 12/8/99, peter furmonavicius wrote:
>Hi.  I have to send out a large mailing here at Yale (20,000 e-mail 
>addresses).  I have a MacPerl script that uses "Net::SMTP" that I 
>use for small mailings but it only handles about 30 messages per 
>minute. I was wondering if anyone had any tips for doing something 
>like this on a larger scale, or ways that I might speed up the 
>process?  Thanks in advance.

The short answer is to give the job to the nearest real SMTP server 
running on a Unix box.

It's hard to know what else to say without knowing *what* you're 
doing with Net::SMTP.  Handing off to a single mail relay in a single 
transaction?  Trying to send directly to the recipient's machine one 
message at a time?


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