>Does anyone have any experience of doing this kind of thing? Anyone got
>any hints as to whether sending 200,000 individual emails (i.e. not the
>same email to everyone) within a 4 hour timeframe is feasible, and what
>sort of machine we'd need to do it (we use Sun's)?
Lots of bandwidth and a good mail server would be the priorities. If it's a
10k email then that's up to 2Gb of data you want to push out there in 4
hours which equates to a sustained bandwidth use of over 1Mbit - and to get
a sustained rate without lots of gaps (do do mx lookups, connectes etc)
you'll need a good mail server. May well want to look at outsourcing for
this let alone possible "spam" concerns to be honest.
Re: Spam: be warned! Make sure you think about things like how you support
people saying they don't want the mails (and never getting added back on),
people having it made clear to them before hand that they may get the mails
etc.
Manar
