[Mailman-Users] Is Mailman right for my app?

[Bill Hilburn]

IMHO, If I may

I started to go on about the advantages in using a mailing list server such as 
Mailman (It *rocks* !) but the most valuable advantage in your case would be 
the efficientcy in which Mailman would send your 50,000 emails...

As as ISP, Mailman is the only way we would allow this amount of mail because 
of the SMTP server usage...

We do not allow users to bulk mail using the To: or Cc: or Bcc: fields, for 
some strange reason everyone thinks bandwidth is free, it's not!

Our bandwith cost from our back bone connections costs us an average of 
$37,000.00/month so it is very important to us to find an efficient method for 
every process.

Just my 0.02!


Quoting Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com>:

> You don't need a mailing list manager.
> 
> You have a text file with all your valid addresses, simply write a small
> script to parse through the file and BCC all the folks in that list (or
> actually send it TO each person - one at a time).
> 
> You could use ~mailman/bin/sync_members to sync up a Mailman mailing
> list with a text file of email addresses (one per line).
> 
> But why go to that trouble when you are just going to throw that list
> away after one message?
> 
> Jon Carnes
> 
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 03:50, Bobby and Denise wrote:
> > I'm building a web application in PHP to upload multiple mailing lists
> via
> > text files and merge the addresses (eliminate duplicates) to create a
> single
> > list.  This final list will reside in my web db, and can have up to
> 50,000
> > email addresses.  Up to this point is no problem, but...
> > 
> > I need to then be able to create a mailing list from the list in my db
> > (preferably by writing to a text file), and launch a mailer to the list
> via
> > the mail server.   After sending a single message I no longer need the
> > list-- i.e. I can completely overwrite it next time, and someone else
> > manages opt-outs.  I would like to capture bounce info back into by
> > application db though.  My hosting company recommends Mailman.
> > 
> > Is Mailman the right mail server software for me?  Better than Majordomo
> and
> > Mojomail (also available via my host on my vps)?  I see the list mgmt
> guide,
> > but I don't need to maintain the list at all, nor do I need to send
> another
> > message to this list ever.  If so, where can I find the documentation on
> how
> > to create mailing lists remotely (with a web page)?
> > 
> > Thanks to anyone who can help.
> > 
> > --Bobby
> > 
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Bill Hilburn
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