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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:45:43 +0100
From:      Enriko Groen <enriko.groen@netivity.nl>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: news letter server
Message-ID:  <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252624DC9F7@NETIVITY-FS>

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> Hi, no, the problem is that this firm wants a custom
> news letter, they want to subscribe for example a
> thousand e-mail addresses at a time, then send them
> one news letter.
> Then if they want to unsubscribe or add some addresses
> to the list they must be indipendent, we do not want 
> to make their work.
> So, they want a ready-to-use solution, such as a web
> page to put all the addresses of their subscribers,
> send one mail to the list on our server and then our
> machine rat-ta-ta-ta-tat shoots them to the
> subscribers.
> I think will be difficult to find a solution. ups!
> regards

have you thought about building something yourself?
I built something that does this trick. I'm no perl-guru; far from
experienced. Yet I built something in a day time.

Basicly it does: 
look for .eml files
open the assciated list of mailadressess (plain text)
scan the list for bad addresses (wow advanced feature ;)
sort the list on domainname (wow advanced feature ;)
devide the list into blocks of 50 address
connect to smtp server (perl smtp module) and inject 50 (or less) addresses
and one email.

this job is run from cron which could be tuned to start when bandwidth use
is low (at night)

Works great... all we do is use an ASP (some people here have most
experience in the language) page to let people upload their list through
ftp.


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