[NBLUG/talk] Using Linux (Fedora 3) to bulk email

[Todd Cary]

Steve -

I am a member of a yacht club and we need to send emails to various 
populations of members.  Though I work with databases professionally, I 
would like to avoid reinventing the wheel if a package already exists.  
My goal would be to put the application on the Cobalt server and use the 
existing MySQL database.  For the creation of the email, I may use the 
Browser editor ( http://209.204.172.137/editor/ ).

Todd

Steve Johnson wrote:

>I'm not sure if there is built in bul emailing software, but there are
>databases you can install such as MySQL, Postgres SQL or even Berkly
>DB..
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>To write a simple script to bulk mail based on one of these database
>would be pretty simple.. So it can be done.
>
>What kind of bulk mail are you sending (hopefuly not spam)?  If you
>need a simple mailing list, then you could install something like
>mailman and then an MTA (Sendmail for example), mailman is a mailing
>list program, as a matter of fact, it is what nblug uses (I believe).
>
>-Steve
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>On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:00:37 -0800, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:
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>>I was told that built into Linux, there is the ability to use a DB (e.g.
>>MySQL) to bulk email.
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>>Is this true?
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>>If so, what is the name of the program?
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>>Is it the best to use?
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>>Todd
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