[imp] Sending mass mailings

[Peter Paul Elfferich]

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