George_Sherston has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
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That said - my task is to automate the process of sending the weekly email, which at present is done by the administrator cutting and pasting fifty email addresses at a time into his email client's cc field. It's a simple job, as the emails are all on a MySQL db. BUT I've only ever done one-off emailings from scripts,a and I seem to remember hearing that Mail::Sendmail, my module of choice for these, can break at high volume. I looked at Mail::Bulkmail, which seems to do what I want, but hasn't had an update for a couple of years, which always makes me wary - is there some reason why it has languished? None of the other mail modules sounded like they did what I want, which is basically to do what Mail::Sendmail does, only reliably for large numbers. This sounds like something I'm only about the millionth person to want to do - do you have a fave module? Or am I wrong to fear Mail::Sendmail will break?
§ George Sherston
That said - my task is to automate the process of sending the weekly email, which at present is done by the administrator cutting and pasting fifty email addresses at a time into his email client's cc field. It's a simple job, as the emails are all on a MySQL db. BUT I've only ever done one-off emailings from scripts,a and I seem to remember hearing that Mail::Sendmail, my module of choice for these, can break at high volume. I looked at Mail::Bulkmail, which seems to do what I want, but hasn't had an update for a couple of years, which always makes me wary - is there some reason why it has languished? None of the other mail modules sounded like they did what I want, which is basically to do what Mail::Sendmail does, only reliably for large numbers. This sounds like something I'm only about the millionth person to want to do - do you have a fave module? Or am I wrong to fear Mail::Sendmail will break?
§ George Sherston
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Re: Email lists (the Righteous sort)
by derby (Abbot) on Oct 18, 2002 at 16:59 UTC | |
by George_Sherston (Vicar) on Oct 18, 2002 at 17:15 UTC | |
by jlongino (Parson) on Oct 18, 2002 at 19:51 UTC | |
Re: Email lists (the Righteous sort)
by l2kashe (Deacon) on Oct 18, 2002 at 20:35 UTC | |
Re: Email lists (the Righteous sort)
by perrin (Chancellor) on Oct 18, 2002 at 17:54 UTC | |
Re: Email lists (the Righteous sort)
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Oct 18, 2002 at 15:43 UTC | |
Re: Email lists (the Righteous sort)
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 18, 2002 at 20:49 UTC | |
Re: Email lists (the Righteous sort)
by nothingmuch (Priest) on Oct 18, 2002 at 15:45 UTC |
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