Sending mail to large list

[mufka]

I need to send mail out to list of 5000 recipients. Is there a limit to sendmail 8.9.3 that would prevent this? Could I expect problems to arise from sending that many messages? Personally, I would consider something that large to be spam, but someone apparently has a legitimate need.

Thanks for any info.

 

[ruttiger]

Sendmail's got a maximum number of recipeints - you set it...i cant think of the param name right now...but, the best way to do this is in a script. Have a perl script BCC a message to 100 recipients, then wait 10 seconds, then check if /var/spool/mqueue is empty (the mail queue). if it's empty, send the next 100 recips, if not, wait again


hope this helps

 

[Albion]

Yeah that's good, tell people how to send out e-mail spam.

-al

 

[ruttiger]

ya, good point -- sorry