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Bulk emails

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14Jan05 Omar	Subject: Bulk emails Hey Will, thanks for the help on the commas - it worked great. Now I'm needing to know what the best way to send bulk emails is. I've been sent an Excel file full of information about members of the Chamber of Commerce. Presumably it'd be similar to the datafile search you helped me with earlier. Pull the fields from the file and use the sendmail program. Do you have a script that fits this situation or could point me in a different direction? Thanks!
17Jan05 Will [Email]	In response to: Bulk emails When determining the best way, first note how many destination email addresses are on the list. If under 5,000, then probably using sendmail would be efficient, provided it's on a server with the capacity to handle it. The code in the How To Send Email With Perl series of articles could probably be adapted for the job. If a huge list, you may wish to talk to the people at Lyris about how best to get the email sent. They publish email marketing software.

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14Jan05

Omar

Subject: Bulk emails

Hey Will, thanks for the help on the commas - it worked great.

Now I'm needing to know what the best way to send bulk emails is. I've been sent an Excel file full of information about members of the Chamber of Commerce. Presumably it'd be similar to the datafile search you helped me with earlier. Pull the fields from the file and use the sendmail program. Do you have a script that fits this situation or could point me in a different direction? Thanks!

17Jan05

Will

[Email]

In response to: Bulk emails

When determining the best way, first note how many destination email addresses are on the list.

If under 5,000, then probably using sendmail would be efficient, provided it's on a server with the capacity to handle it. The code in the How To Send Email With Perl series of articles could probably be adapted for the job.

If a huge list, you may wish to talk to the people at Lyris about how best to get the email sent. They publish email marketing software.

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