Sending bulk email from a Python script

[Steve Lamb]

On 2004-03-09, Simon Willison <cs1spw at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
> We've already looked at mailman and a number of other packages. None of 
> them fit our requirements as we need to be able to tie the list 
> administration in to our existing user authentication / admin control 
> panel, plus we want to tie the email lists to our membership databases. 
> We've got most of the other infrastructure already, we just need an 
> efficient way of sending out bulk emails to a large list of addresses.

    I submit to you that either hacking in authentication and a method to
extract your membership database to a Mailman list would be far simpler than
attempting to implement a bulk SMTP client along with the associated support
structures (bounce handling, et al).  ;)

    Python is, if nothing else, extremely modular.  Or so I am told.  =D

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