> My quesiton is does anybody have any ideas of something out there that
> would allow me to send customized messages, yet keep the bulk_mailer kind of
> mail bundling?
You can't do that -- bulk_mailer puts multiple addresses on a single
message. If the messages are different, you have to send them separately.
The benefits of the kind of bundling that bulk_mailer does are debatable.
There's a tradeoff between bandwidth and throughput, and I've seen pretty
convincing evidence that even on identical messages, individual deliveries
get all the mail delivered faster than bundled ones due to less waiting for
network latency, even though the total amount of network traffic is greater.
(This is the crux of the qmail vs. sendmail flame war, which I'm not
interested in rekindling.)
So anyway, if you want to send individual messages, do so and forget about
bulk_mailer. Lots of systems such as Lyris do so, and work fine.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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