mailshot setup
Bob Hutchinson <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:03:39 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.ezmlm |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I'm not sure if this is out of place but here goes anyway. I want to send out a weekly newsletter which is pulled from a database and which is to be sent to a list of subscribers. The plan is that this run on a weekly cron but so far my attempts to get this to work the way I want it have been mixed. I tried ezmlm-send but decided that was not the right tool so I tried qmail-inject in the form of cat newsletter_mailout.txt | qmail-inject [email protected] [email protected] where [email protected] is the list's moderator, newsletter_mailout.txt is the content (pulled from mysql by another script) and [email protected] the list. What happens is that [email protected] (the moderator) gets a request to allow the sending of the list and that works fine, the mailout gets sent, however the From: header is root@servername and the To: header is [email protected] What I want is From: [email protected] and To: [email protected] This would lend the mailout 'credibility' I would also prefer that the list was just sent, no intervention required. The folks who write the content are journalists, not techies ;-) The list is not interactive, it's just a mailshot to the people who have subscribed themselves over a number of years via form on a website. The reason I want to use ezmlm is so that people can unsubscribe themselves and new subscribers can be checked by the confirmation method. I gather that ezmlm will also scrub the list of bounces automatically. I have already 'cleaned' the list by looking up the domains for but there are nonexistent email addresses in there. I am running ezmlm-idx-0.40 but have no objections to trying a more recent one. No one else is using ezmlm on this particular box so I can afford to fool around. I am running a stock Shupp toaster, qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin etc no mysql backend. Looking forward to some ideas. ;-) -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -----------------