I see Gordon has already offered to help write it, so if you know what's
good for you, take him up on it :)
Otherwise, if you check the mailhelp archives on moongroup (search for
"mass mailer") you will find a small perl script that does basically what
Gordon describes except it uses a simple non-XML template, and currently
gets the email info from a text file.
If you need help converting it to get the names from a MySQL or PostgreSQL
db, just send us your schema. Gordon can get it done in no time :) Just
kidding, I can help too.
Also take Chuck's advice and install postfix. It eats mass emails for
breakfast.
charles
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, (Jonathan Wilson) wrote:
>
> > Several of the web sites we host have once-n-month newsletter-promotion
> > e-mails that we send out in bulk.
> >
> > Right now we have all registered users in an MSSQL database, and have an NT
> > bulk mailer that reads the table of names and addresses, and sends the
> > newsletter to each to the recipients listed therein. We'd like to move this
> > to Linux also. Any suggestions on what Linux mailers are best suited for
> > this? (Would be really nice if it interfaced with a MySQL or PostgreSQL DB)
>
> I don't know of any specifically for that purpose, so if no one else
> responds to this query, you may have to write your own. However, it
> shouldn't be terribly difficult. I've got a bunch of code over here that
> you can use to that purpose. The billing programs which are part of ISPd
> read customers from an SQL database, parse an XML template, and send mail
> to those customers. You can get extra tricky with that, or you can cut
> out the extra tricky (but still simple to use) parts and do it.
>
> I'll even help you write it :)
>
> If you don't find something else that suits your needs, let me know.
>
> MSG
>
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