Tabor J. Wells wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:55:47PM -0700,
> Yi Liu <yliu@???> is thought to have said: > > Thanks for the tip. Is there a program available to do this presorting or
> > should I look to script my own? > A few lines of perl will do the job.
debian has a package called bulkmail that looks exactly like what you
want; from to http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/mail/bulkmail.html > Package: bulkmail 1.8-2
> Speed up delivery of e-mail to large numbers of recipients. This is a
> C program to do "bulk" mailing. For input, it takes a file of
> recipient addresses (one address per line) and a message (with headers
> already attached) to be sent to the recipients. It sorts the recipient
> list by reversed domain (so similar ones sort together), splits up the
> recipients into several groups containing no more than N domains each,
> creates an SMTP envelope for each group of recipients, and feeds that
> envelope to "/usr/lib/sendmail -bs".
> Smartlist also contains a bulkmail-style tool.
