Re: [SAGE] politely sending emails to huge lists of recipients

[seph <seph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As Tom mentions, there's a lot of complexity in doing reliable bulk
message delivery. 

Depending on what you're doing, you may be able to get enough mileage out
of forcing everything through a postfix server. That can limit the
number of smtp recipients, and do other general things.

seph

Marco Marongiu <brontolinux@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Dear fellow Sysadmins
>
> I need your advice about a tool that can safely send messages to huge
> lists of recipients, avoiding spam-like patterns (e.g.: fractionating
> the recipient list in acceptable chunks, sending the message to each
> chunk leaving a reasonable interval between two deliveries), or if you
> have a tested configuration for postfix that does the job.
>
> At $WORK we had some problems with email providers, due to the fact
> that $EMPLOYEES sent out emails to huge recipient lists (suffice it to
> say that one of the smallest was ~370 recipients long). I discovered
> that while investigating about $PROVIDER rejecting our messages.
>
> I thought that for (almost) fixed recipients list, a common mailing
> list manager (e.g.: mailman) would suffice. But sometimes they have to
> send a one-shot message to a long list of recipients. Using mailman
> for that would require them to change the subscribers list over and
> over, and I am not sure that it is safe to let them do it.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Ciao!
> --bronto
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