On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:05:28 -0600, LuKreme <kremels(_at_)kreme(_dot_)com>
wrote:
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 7:55 AM, DZ-Jay wrote:
Instead of pounding nails with your all-purpose procmail screwdriver, use
mailman to manage your mailings. It will handle all the ounce processing
on its own, freeing your time for other things.
Hum... As I explained in a previous post, what my organization does is not
a traditional mailing list like this one, its personalized advertising
campaigns sent to our customers (strictly opt-in, by the way.) Our
customer e-mail list reside in our enterprise commerce server's database
and whenver we are going to mail, we export the most current list of
addresses based on some sales or demographic criteria and feed it to a
comercial bulk e-mailer, which sends a personalized e-mail to the clients.
Since the address list is currently managed by and stored in our commerce
server (for the moment at least), I need to catch the failed messages so
that I can have them removed from the server. I'm not trying to hit a nail
with a screwdriver, I'm trying to duct-tape all the boards into place :)
Notice that I only will use procmail to gather the failed messages --
that's all I was asking for here -- the processing and analysis of the
messages, and extraction the extraction of the failed recipients I will
handle by a separate process. Yes, more duct-tape.
If you think mailman can broadcast personalized messages and allow an
address list to be imported and also provide a list of addresses that
failed, then I'll try it. But I was under the impression that mailman
would not work for this.
dZ.
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