Re: Using [sendmail] for mass mailings
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2001
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = I wrote a newsletter app over the last few months. Indeed webcat's mailer is too slow, therefore I used a seperate mailer called ezmail. I didn't use the sendmail, rather I wrote the files to a *pickup dir*, there the messages were sent out. The company sends out around 3500-4000 letters a day, based upon blocks of 500-1000 at a time. Takes around an hour to complete a mailing. I did encounter some bad bugs, but now for the most part, it has worked well for me.I have to agree with Allain, webcat can be used for this if applied correctly.-ADam O >From: Alain Russell
>Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk) >To: (WebCatalog Talk) >Subject: Re: Using [sendmail] for mass mailings >Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:40:11 +1300 > >Prepare for the flame mail from the list on this - there are firm believers >on the list that Webcatalog should not be used for this .. I on the >contrary >think it works great and use it in exactly that way at the moment. > >Things to consider: > >Do not base your code on [Sendmail] & Emailer, it is to slow. > >Use a more robust mail package and delivery mechanism - I just did this on >my OSX server and the performance increase is amazing, last week I sent an >email to 4800 recipients. Writing the email in webcatalog and processing >the >email with Communigate Pro took 7 minutes total .. Compare this to when I >used Sendmail and it took hours. > >Remember the bandwidth, my email was 46Mb of data to send and being an HTML >email generated 170Mb within the next few hours .. Make sure you are on a >big pipe as this will kill an average connection. > >Ignore the critics, it does work. > >Apart from that >Go for gold, it works and is fast. >Alain > > > > Does anyone know the limitations of using [sendmail] > > for mass emailing? > > > > I am considering using WebCat to build a system that > > will work as a listserve of sorts. > > > > If anyone has done this and knows what the potential > > pitfalls are, I would love to hear them before I > > start. > > > > Regards, > > Jeff Grady > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > > http://personals.yahoo.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > > the mailing list . > > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > >Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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I wrote a newsletter app over the last few months. Indeed webcat's mailer is too slow, therefore I used a seperate mailer called ezmail. I didn't use the sendmail, rather I wrote the files to a *pickup dir*, there the messages were sent out. The company sends out around 3500-4000 letters a day, based upon blocks of 500-1000 at a time. Takes around an hour to complete a mailing. I did encounter some bad bugs, but now for the most part, it has worked well for me.I have to agree with Allain, webcat can be used for this if applied correctly.-ADam O >From: Alain Russell >Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk) >To: (WebCatalog Talk) >Subject: Re: Using [sendmail] for mass mailings >Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:40:11 +1300 > >Prepare for the flame mail from the list on this - there are firm believers >on the list that Webcatalog should not be used for this .. I on the >contrary >think it works great and use it in exactly that way at the moment. > >Things to consider: > >Do not base your code on [sendmail] & Emailer, it is to slow. > >Use a more robust mail package and delivery mechanism - I just did this on >my OSX server and the performance increase is amazing, last week I sent an >email to 4800 recipients. Writing the email in webcatalog and processing >the >email with Communigate Pro took 7 minutes total .. Compare this to when I >used Sendmail and it took hours. > >Remember the bandwidth, my email was 46Mb of data to send and being an HTML >email generated 170Mb within the next few hours .. Make sure you are on a >big pipe as this will kill an average connection. > >Ignore the critics, it does work. > >Apart from that >Go for gold, it works and is fast. >Alain > > > > Does anyone know the limitations of using [sendmail] > > for mass emailing? > > > > I am considering using WebCat to build a system that > > will work as a listserve of sorts. > > > > If anyone has done this and knows what the potential > > pitfalls are, I would love to hear them before I > > start. > > > > Regards, > > Jeff Grady > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > > http://personals.yahoo.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > > the mailing list . > > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > >Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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