Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long]

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1999


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 25281
interpreted = N
texte = Thing is, I want to personalize each message, I mean... I was using a regular mail distribution list before, which worked real well, but I want to be able to have a webcat 'remove' page.I really like the idea of using tcpconnect/netevents/sendmail osax to connect directly with sims, it seems like the 'right' way yto do it. why bother writeing a text file at all?But I'm loath to put 6000 applescript commands inside a found items,or to have 6000 tcp connects. (maybe 'spawn' would be good for this??)i'm also looking at futue growth, I gathered these 6000 addresses in just 3 months, I imagine this will be up to 30,000 before too long.I have a UNIX machine, a few extra macs and a NT box I can devote to this, I just don't know the best approach. (and I don't know applescript or perl very well)Joseph D'Andrea wrote:> At 9:11 AM 12/8/99, Michael O Shea wrote: > >> Well written Aran! Listen are the e-mail addresses in a .db? If so > >> why not write some webcat code to send the mail in batches of say > >> 100? That way you will not kill your server. > > I crashed my server trying to send e-mail to ~5,000 users. Since then my > users database has grown to 10,000. > > I have a few extra fields in my database for random purposes. > > I have one template which sets one of these extra fields to NO on all the > records. > > Then I search the database neFIELD1data=YES&max=300 > > in founditems, I write my email message to a file in the sims submitted > folder and set FIELD1 to YES. > > This first time I ran it I then hit that template every 5 minutes. (Seems > that the SIMS activity as measured by the twinkling lights on my router > quieted down after about 3 minutes) > > The next time I try this I will set a trigger after each pass and set the > trigger to re-run the template again in five minutes until the [numfound]=0 > then I'll send my self an e-mail to tell me it's all done. > > Thanks to Mike_Davis who suggested the concept. > > ___Joe___ > > _________________________________________________ > Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.com > WEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century > http://www.west21.com/ > _________________________________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. > To end your Mail problems go to . > > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to ------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Marty Schmid 1999)
  2. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Joseph D'Andrea 1999)
  3. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Jay Van Vark 1999)
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  5. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Brian B. Burton 1999)
  6. Re: Version number missing (was Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long]) (Aaron Lynch 1999)
  7. Version number missing (was Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long]) (Kenneth Grome 1999)
  8. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Marty Schmid 1999)
  9. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Aaron Lynch 1999)
  10. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Aaron Lynch 1999)
  11. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Joseph D'Andrea 1999)
  12. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Aaron Lynch 1999)
  13. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (John Butler 1999)
  14. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Joseph D'Andrea 1999)
  15. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (John Butler 1999)
  16. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Joseph D'Andrea 1999)
  17. Re: Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Michael O Shea 1999)
  18. Mondo amounts of Mail [long] (Aaron Lynch 1999)
Thing is, I want to personalize each message, I mean... I was using a regular mail distribution list before, which worked real well, but I want to be able to have a webcat 'remove' page.I really like the idea of using tcpconnect/netevents/sendmail osax to connect directly with sims, it seems like the 'right' way yto do it. why bother writeing a text file at all?But I'm loath to put 6000 applescript commands inside a found items,or to have 6000 tcp connects. (maybe 'spawn' would be good for this??)i'm also looking at futue growth, I gathered these 6000 addresses in just 3 months, I imagine this will be up to 30,000 before too long.I have a UNIX machine, a few extra macs and a NT box I can devote to this, I just don't know the best approach. (and I don't know applescript or perl very well)Joseph D'Andrea wrote:> At 9:11 AM 12/8/99, Michael O Shea wrote: > >> Well written Aran! Listen are the e-mail addresses in a .db? If so > >> why not write some webcat code to send the mail in batches of say > >> 100? That way you will not kill your server. > > I crashed my server trying to send e-mail to ~5,000 users. Since then my > users database has grown to 10,000. > > I have a few extra fields in my database for random purposes. > > I have one template which sets one of these extra fields to NO on all the > records. > > Then I search the database neFIELD1data=YES&max=300 > > in founditems, I write my email message to a file in the sims submitted > folder and set FIELD1 to YES. > > This first time I ran it I then hit that template every 5 minutes. (Seems > that the SIMS activity as measured by the twinkling lights on my router > quieted down after about 3 minutes) > > The next time I try this I will set a trigger after each pass and set the > trigger to re-run the template again in five minutes until the [numfound]=0 > then I'll send my self an e-mail to tell me it's all done. > > Thanks to Mike_Davis who suggested the concept. > > ___Joe___ > > _________________________________________________ > Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.com > WEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century > http://www.west21.com/ > _________________________________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. > To end your Mail problems go to . > > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to ------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Aaron Lynch

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