Otavio Exel [
mailto:oexel@economatica.com.br] wrote:
> > 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?
> 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.
i used to use bulkmail when i was running moderately large lists with
sendmail; now that i've switched to exim, i've pretty much abandoned
bulkmail. if you need to presort lists, you can use bulkmail for that,
but i'd not inject it as an active agent in the delivery process if you
are using exim as the MTA; it won't add much but will create some risks,
as bulkmail contains nothing that even remotely resembles any sort of
logging, error recovery, fault tolerance, etc. if a bulkmail process
crashes, any mail that it hasn't yet delivered goes into the bitbucket.
richard
