Re: OT: Sending e-mails from a database
On 02/22/2012 01:57 PM, Paul Smith wrote: with a different opening for each recipient what do you mean with different opening? -- RMA. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: OT: Sending e-mails from a database
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Sorry for this out of topic post, but I do not know of more appropriate forum. I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it possible to accomplish it with Fedora? All you need is Python: http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html and more specifically for GMail: http://segfault.in/2010/12/sending-gmail-from-python/ From your description: just set the SMTP server name, username/password accordingly, read each recipient from a list and send away by finding an appropriate way to set the opening - which you mention will be different. Good luck. -Amit -- http://echorand.me -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: OT: Sending e-mails from a database
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it possible to accomplish it with Fedora? How big a database? Thing is, this sounds like bulk emailing: if it’s large enough that you want to automate this, it’s large enough to be considered bulk. That immediately raises two questions: * Have all your recipients *actively* requested this email? * is what you’re doing likely to get the attention of ISPs, and Google in particular? The large free email service providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and Google) have an ongoing problem with spammers using their services¹, and are taking a number of technical means to spot and stop this. You don’t want to fall foul of this, or you may find Google closing your account permanently. A database-fed burst of similar but slightly-different email is the sort of thing that they would look for. There’s a lot of potential for things to go wrong here, and you probably won’t get any support from Google. You might want to consider http://mailchimp.com/pricing/free/ : they do know what they’re doing, and they have a pretty good reputation. (I’m not connected with MailChimp, although I did recommend it to my company before we decided to keep bulk-mailing in-house.) Hope this helps, James. ¹ Especially the so-called Nigerian 419 spammers, who will pay third-world citizens to write and send emails through free email services: the constantly-differing texts make it harder to do content analysis spotting that these emails are spam. -- E-mail: james@ | 'Short for Sic Transit Gloria Humanorum, which is Latin aprilcottage.co.uk | for There goes the neighbourhood!' | -- Menno Willemse -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: OT: Sending e-mails from a database
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:30 PM, James Wilkinson fed...@aprilcottage.co.uk wrote: I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it possible to accomplish it with Fedora? How big a database? Thing is, this sounds like bulk emailing: if it’s large enough that you want to automate this, it’s large enough to be considered bulk. That immediately raises two questions: * Have all your recipients *actively* requested this email? * is what you’re doing likely to get the attention of ISPs, and Google in particular? The large free email service providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and Google) have an ongoing problem with spammers using their services¹, and are taking a number of technical means to spot and stop this. You don’t want to fall foul of this, or you may find Google closing your account permanently. A database-fed burst of similar but slightly-different email is the sort of thing that they would look for. There’s a lot of potential for things to go wrong here, and you probably won’t get any support from Google. You might want to consider http://mailchimp.com/pricing/free/ : they do know what they’re doing, and they have a pretty good reputation. (I’m not connected with MailChimp, although I did recommend it to my company before we decided to keep bulk-mailing in-house.) Hope this helps, James. ¹ Especially the so-called Nigerian 419 spammers, who will pay third-world citizens to write and send emails through free email services: the constantly-differing texts make it harder to do content analysis spotting that these emails are spam. Thanks for all answers and suggestions. I have meanwhile found the following script, which works with the Google Docs Spreadsheet: http://www.google.pt/url?sa=trct=jq=yet%20another%20mail%20mergesource=webcd=1sqi=2ved=0CCAQtwIwAAurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVxUgXeswDLIei=Ju9ET9C3Nc-78gOs1sHZBAusg=AFQjCNHHAo1r8hLIvlblWUYCzh-n_cyNAgcad=rja My database has 500 recipients, and is not spam. Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
