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On 2006-04-29, range wrote:
> On 29 Apr 2006 06:21:09 GMT, jpd
> wrote:
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>>On 2006-04-22, Range wrote:
>>> I want to setup a e-news server,
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>>A what?
>
> maybe I should call it e-paper service?
>
> I want to choice a more perference collocation with MTA & List server
I think the term ``newsletter'' would fit the bill, from what limited
information you've given.
A note though: Due to excessive spam and so on, running a mail
exploder like that means that you will have to be extremely careful
and scrupulous on how you handle the list of subscribers. Fail even in
minor ways and you quickly are labeled ``spammer'', end up on various
blacklists, get shunned everywhere except on bulletproof spam friendly
hosters that in turn are blacklisted on the router level at many sites
in the rest of the internet[1], and so on.
Do never let marketing or sales run rampant on such a list. Don't
outsource it, but care for it like both the trade secret and the privacy
sensitive information that it is. And be prepared to handle abuse
reports, including abusive ones.
> I hope can use less time and bandwidth to
> send the e-paper to all subscribers.
Do look up the features SMTP has for saving bandwidth. Most of the time,
you can just let your MTA do its thing. You still need to configure it
properly, of course.
> I just think if I can send one mail to destination mail server then
> deploy there,that i will economy a lot resource.
Not necessairily, as you're effectively putting a box in the chain that
merely passes the mail+entire receivers list through to another, and
by the naming you proposed, putting in some unnecesairy configuration
trickery. The simpler option is usually to send the mail directly to the
box that will ``explode'' the list.
As I said, simplicity is usually to be preferred, and that looks to be
the case here as well. Unless, of course, you can demonstrate some clear
need to increase complexity. But so far your rather vague description
did not demonstrate that to me.
Your real problems are likely not in the setup, but in not spamming.
[1] Many such sites run private blacklists that are much, much more
restrictive than even the harshest publicised ones, and getting
off of them once listed is much harder still, as you'll need to
find them when you do not even know where they exist, then try
and convince the maintainers they should take you off again.
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