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Re: [MacPerl] mass mailing
At 11:56 AM +1030 12/10/99, Henry Penninkilampi wrote:
>On 19991208.2131, 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.
>
>Use the Bcc: field and, since you're sending the same message to multiple
>recipients, exploit the strengths of SMTP and Sendmail.
>etc......
Henry, thank you so much for your memo, I really appreciate you
taking the time to write. I think your idea is terrific, obvious
once you think about it, yet not something that I had seen anyone
ever come up with before. I am going to give it a try and hope
nothing chokes along the way. This is like forcing a pig through a
python. Let's see what happens....
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