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I'm assuming we're talking about thousands of emails here, not millions. When was the last time you tried sending thousands of emails? It's a surprisingly non-
by mootothemax 16y ago
I'm assuming we're talking about thousands of emails here, not millions.
When was the last time you tried sending thousands of emails? It's a surprisingly non-trivial task to send more than a few hundred emails - and that's ignoring setting off spam filters and getting IP addresses blacklisted.
Speaking honestly, I like your idea, but it's my opinion that if it were that simple then the jQuery guys would do it. Since it isn't that simple, they're not.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoYou're saying this to the wrong person. I run mail systems for a living. IMO, it is a trivial task to send tens of thousands of emails. It should take about a minute to craft a one liner to pull the relevant domains out of the access logs. It should then take maybe half an hour or less to write a batch script to queue up the emails. Then sit back and watch them go... What else is there?
- mootothemax 16y agoYou're saying this to the wrong person. I run mail systems for a living. IMO, it is a trivial task to send tens of thousands of emails. What hardware are you running that supports sending out tens of thousands of emails, handling the inevitable DNS errors, timeouts, bounces (yes yes, I've read about the RFC ;)) and that manages all of this in a reasonable amount of time? Genuine question, I'm curious.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoIf we're only discussing tens of thousands of emails, I'd probably get the cheapest Linode available and bung Exim on it. The average home PC could handle this without issue...