On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Galen Seitz <gal...@seitzassoc.com> wrote: > On 02/11/16 16:10, Rich Shepard wrote: >> I have several hundred newsletter subscribers and, because my outbound >> mail needs to be relayed via my ISP's mail server there's a limit of 100 >> messages/hour per IP address. >> >> To accommodate this limit I've partitioned the address list in chunks of >> 100 addresses each and done the same with the mailx scripts (which requires >> me to edit the subject line for each script). What I'd like is to have a >> wrapper script that would be fed to 'at' and 1) enter the newsletter e-mail >> subject line on each mailx script and 2) send subsequent chunks at hourly >> intervals. Cron is not appropriate because newsletters are written and >> distributed irregularly. >> >> A pointer to what I should read to learn how to accomplish this is what I >> need. > > You're running Postfix, correct? Why not let Postfix handle this?
Or let SendGrid handle it: https://sendgrid.com/ If you send less than 12,000 emails per month, they have a free plan: https://sendgrid.com/pricing Good luck and let us know which route you take and how things go. Regards, - Robert _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug