Re: [MacPerl] mass mailing

[bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)]

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 22:33:17 -0800, Rich Morin wrote:

>I use a short script to drive PTF's very occasional mass mailings.
>The reasons I don't send batches are that:
>
>   *  privacy is important; nobody wants their name and email address
>      given away, willy-nilly

Meaning: one mail per recipient.

>      and
>
>   *  tracking is critical; I need to include a "Sent To:" header
>      in each message, to be able to solve problems like reflectors,
>      .forward files, etc.

Meaning: personal mail.

There's a third reason. Some (smaller) companies use Microsoft's
Exchange Server to deliver the mail from one large company account to
individual recipients. This program is a little daft, and it fails to
deliver all messages if there's more than one anonymous recipient sent
through that server. You NEED them in a To or a CC field. Yes, Microsoft
fouled up, again.

>If anyone has a better solution that solves both of these, however,
>I'd be glad to hear of it!

May solution is: I've written a script that sends mass mails directly
from my ISP's server. The list of recipients are in a file on the
server, and we can send simple mail through a HTML form (password
protected, of course ;-).

It still takes a long time, but *I* don't notice. I don't even have to
be on-line. BTW there's even a built-in sleep() once in a while, in
order not to consume all available bandwidth. I don't want my ISP to
complain (with reason).

-- 
	Bart.

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