Re[3]: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-16 Thread Brian Ashe
Hi Jonathan, Friday, September 15, 2000, 4:00:04 PM, you wrote: JW> Cool, thanks. No problem... JW> I do have all of the above, except we're running MySQL not JW> Postgres ( I wanted to use Postgres but the main coder here just started JW> using MySQl, so I was out of luck ;-) ) Tough break

Re[2]: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Cool, thanks. I do have all of the above, except we're running MySQL not Postgres ( I wanted to use Postgres but the main coder here just started using MySQl, so I was out of luck ;-) ) but since we know PHP I think we can make this work. Upgraded to php4 BTW but it shouldn't matter. >*Rest of

Re[2]: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Brian Ashe
Hi Jonathan, Stop worrying about the mailer you use. Since I believe you had initially requested just being able to interface with a RDBMS try this. Have PHP installed? (You're insane not to, IMHO ;) ) Have Apache installed? Have PostgreSQL installed? These are all stock in Redhat and easily in

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Chuck Mead
On 15 Sep 2000, Simon J Mudd spewed into the bitstream: SJM>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuck Mead) writes: SJM> SJM>> Some things you can read which might help: SJM>> SJM>> http://mirrors.linuxmall.com/postfix/start.html SJM>> http://www.moongroup.com/old/docs/postfix-faq/index.html SJM>> http://www.moo

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Simon J Mudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuck Mead) writes: > Some things you can read which might help: > > http://mirrors.linuxmall.com/postfix/start.html > http://www.moongroup.com/old/docs/postfix-faq/index.html > http://www.moongroup.com/old/docs/RH-postfix-HOWTO/ > http://www.moongroup.com/old/documentation.ph

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Chuck Mead
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson spewed into the bitstream: JW>Heck, man, it'll take more then my hour's time just to read those docs ;-) Sorry... before I became the head geek at LinuxMall I was a mail consultant. That's most of what MoonGroup (yes... it's my company though I'm using it as

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Heck, man, it'll take more then my hour's time just to read those docs ;-) JW At 12:03 PM 9/15/2000 -0600, you wrote: >On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson spewed into the bitstream: > >JW>Exactly how hard is it to switch to Postfix from sendmail? If I can >JW>guarantee my boss that it'

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Charles Galpin
It's no day, but it's no hour either. I guess it depends how familiar you are with sendmail, and MTAs in general. Don't do it if you are concerned. Just measure the time/performance with sendmail and then rethink it's need. But I'm no expert, so YMMV charles On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilso

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Chuck Mead
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson spewed into the bitstream: JW>Exactly how hard is it to switch to Postfix from sendmail? If I can JW>guarantee my boss that it's "rpm -Uhv postfix.rpm' and viola, instant JW>Postfix, then maybe I can get away with it. JW> JW>But if It's gonna take a whole da

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Exactly how hard is it to switch to Postfix from sendmail? If I can guarantee my boss that it's "rpm -Uhv postfix.rpm' and viola, instant Postfix, then maybe I can get away with it. But if It's gonna take a whole day just to set up Postfix, there's no way. (at this point if it's likely to take