RE: [TCLUG:5475] bulk mailers howto.

["Eric Hillman" <ehillman@cccu.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandipan Panigrahi [mailto:pani@frontiernet.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 10:25 AM
> To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> Subject: [TCLUG:5475] bulk mailers howto.
>
>
> Hi, Are there any bulk e-mailers that are around for linux.
> Basically a friend of mine has some kind of agreement with apple to
> do some mailing for their customers.  He would like to be able to
> send about 10000 odd e-mails to customers with the "reply to address"
> showing up as abcdef@something.apple.com. But the "from address"
> will contain his address.
>
> I know it sounds mighty suspicious !  But assuming that it is
> possible how can it be  done ?  Do I use something like
>
> for user in `cat users.txt`
> do
> sendmail -f xxxx@yyyy.apple.com  $user < mail.txt
> done
>
> I am guessing that anything will end up putting a strain on
> the server that the mails are being sent from.
>

	You might want to check out the "Sendmail.pm" module for perl.  It makes
stuff like this really easy.  I've written a bulk e-mailer using this
before, although unfortunately I can't find any of the code right now.