Author: James Fassett Date: To: Tim Jackson, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] php bulk mail
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From: "Tim Jackson" <lists@???>
> Hi James, on Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:37:57 -0700 you wrote:
>
> > For the future, I like the idea of writing a bsmtp file and then passing
> > that file to a Perl script to actually handle the batching.
>
> Where does Perl come into it? All you need to do is write a BSMTP file
> from PHP and then do exim -bS <other options> <your.bsmtp.file
I like the idea of writing a bsmtp batch file and then using Perl to feed it
to exim every 15 minutes or so (cron.d).
The problem is, for a mass mailer, I don't have the option of verifying each
email address fed into my php script.
Besides, a Perl script would allow me to log errors, remove invalid email
addresses from my database as well as preform a few other nice features.
I _could_ do this all from a php script, but php is not as well suited to
this task. Perl is much better suited, IMO. Then again, I'd like to add
Python to my resume too ...
