Re: [Exim] php & exim for newsletter bulk mail

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Author: Jonathan Vanasco
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To: James Fassett
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] php & exim for newsletter bulk mail
Look into TwistedPython (www.twistedmatrix.com) or misc Perl mods..
Net::SMTP might have it.

Php is going to take forever parsing and constructing 10,000 emails --
regardless of feeding them to exim via a mail() or sendmail hook, or
making a connection to remote hosts.

Python and Perl scripts would both be far better suited to that than
php webpages.

You shouldn't even deal with exim -- the script should handle the smtp
connections to remotes hosts itself. No need to introduce the
overhead of an MTA in there.

On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 07:38 PM, James Fassett wrote:

> I've searched the archives and the web, but I am afraid that my head
> is spinning.
>
> I am attempting to create an opt-in newsletter mailer that can handle
> between 8,000 and 10,000 email addresses. This mailer should be
> triggered from php web based page and should create personalized
> emails.
>
> Originally I was opening an SMTP connection directly to the mail
> server for each message. This is _incredibly_ slow and would time out
> horribly.
>
> Can anyone provide
>     Tips / experience
>     Resource locations
>     General advice on exim :
>         config options / command line options
> I should study

>
> If anyone here has succesfully accomplished a similar task, any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> regards,
> James Fassett
>
>
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