Re: [cobalt-developers] Large mailings

["cbtrussell" <cbtrussell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I know that if you hack the config files for majordomo, you can prevent
> lists members from using the list, limiting it to a single person doing
> the mailing.  However, is majordomo the best tool for this job, or
> should I look into something else?

Hi Matthew,

I had one of my developers build an small app for a customer of mine in a
similar situation. Long story short, the names & e-mail addresses go into a
MySQL database, an admin interface allows you to set default headers and
footers (greeting & sig) and then my customer can just type the body of the
message each time ... then send it to everyone in the database. The current
set-up is to have a default 'to' address of customers@xxxxxxxxxx, then send
each message individually with each recipient in the BCC field, but that's
easily changed. The recipients can subscribe/unsubscribe through a web
interface at will. Additional addresses can be imported from an Excel
spreadsheet. This application may be what you need, or there are tons of
free scripts available to do basically the same thing.

Here's one resource:

http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Mailing_Lists/

Hope this helps,

Brandon