Jered J Floyd writes:
> One solution that has been suggested to me is to use a helper program
> called bulk_mailer.pl, which breaks large lists into 'bite-sized chunks'
> for sendmail to deliver. Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate
> this tool. Is anyone familiar with it, and knows where it can be found?
Another good solution is 'splitlist':
http://www.isf.ru/~stas/splitlist/
This page says, among other things:
| Q.: Many of the Majordomo users asked me, why I didn't use bulk_mailer ?
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| A.: First, I didn't know about it at all. Second, bulk_mailer uses
| sendmail command line instead of SMTP, and this means it can't
| decide properly whether to fork sendmail, or just put the message in the
| queue. While talking via SMTP, Sendmail checks the system load and
| makes decision - to fork or not to fork.
One thing I didn't like about splitlist is that you had to set the
number of recipients per message globally in your majordomo.cf,
so I changed it to calculate this figure on the fly using a new
variable ($numSplitlistChunks) and the number of recipients on the
list currently being split. If anyone wants my changes, let me know.
Gerald
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