[imp] Sending mass mailings

[Ronan SALMON]

Hi,

I don't know if what you're looking for exist within Horde, but it  
sounds like 'sympa' is what you need (www.sympa.org). It can do pretty  
anything about mailing list.

Hope this helps,
Ronan.

Quoting Peter Paul Elfferich <pp at dia.uva.nl>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm examining possibilities for sending mass mailings with IMP.
>
> We have a mailing database that was used for snail mail mailings, but we're
> planning on periodically sending email mailings as well. I've already
> configured turba to access the database so the email addresses can be found
> there. Now what I would like to be able to do is send an email to all (or a
> selection of) email addresses in that turba address book.
>
> I am already capable of selecting the addresses in the address book popup
> while composing an email, but I get script timeouts when I try to add them
> to the BCC list and the list seems to be incomplete. Even if I would be able
> to get all the addresses communicated succesfully to our mail server (Exim)
> I don't expect that to work very well either. Does anybody know the
> approximate limits of this approach (in general)?
>
> Since we're dealing with several thousand email addresses I will probably be
> better of with some kind of mailing list software. We could use mailman or
> something similar, but we already have our own address and subscription
> management in place. I would rather have some kind of mass mail support
> built into Horde, allowing you to add an email to a mass mail queue runner.
> This queue runner would basically be a cron job script sending mails from
> some backend individually or in small groups. Does something like this
> already exist? Or can somebody recommend a good queue runner implementation
> for me to start with so I can easily implement my own application? I don't
> feel like re-inventing the wheel.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Paul
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