Sending bulk email from a Python script
Steve Lamb
grey at despair.dmiyu.org
Mon Mar 8 21:33:54 EST 2004
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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