[Zope-CMF] mass mailings

marc lindahl marc@bowery.com
Thu, 07 Feb 2002 00:43:21 -0500


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Here's what I use.  It loops thru all the members, so it sends an individual
mail to each one.  Which makes it slow to return.  But otherwise you could
send out one mail, and list everyone as BCC, but make SURE your mailer hides
BCC addresses.

> From: "Chad Nantais" <cnantais-rednaxel@imeme.net>
> Reply-To: cnantais@rednaxel.com
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 05:16:05 -0000
> To: "Zope CMF" <zope-cmf@zope.org>
> Subject: [Zope-CMF] mass mailings
> 
> I want to send a weekly email newsletter out to all members of my CMF site
> (could be up to 2000 users). I plan to create a script that gets a list of
> all member email addresses from memberdata and inserts that into the 'To:'
> line of an email that will be sent using my smtp mailhost. However, I don't
> want the recipients' addresses to be exposed to the recipients.
> 
> 1. How can I keep the list of recipents undisclosed in the email.
> 2. Is mailhost a bad way to do mass mailings?
> 
> chad
> 
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