A client has asked us to set up a personalised opt-in mailing system on a remotely-hosted web server. We are confident there are no spam issues here, however I am concerned about the technical side.

1. The only way I know to generate personalised emails from Perl is to launch a separate copy of SendMail for each mail. The last thing I want to do is bring down the server by launching 1000+ copies simultaneously. Is there a way to achieve our objective that avoids this risk?

2. Am I right in thinking that once a Perl script is launched from a web client, the client must stay connected for the script to continue? I am concerned about the usability of a system that requires someone to wait at a computer screen until a possibly lengthy process is complete. This would be especially so if the solution to Q1 is to intersperse sleep commands between small batches of emails. Any ideas?

I did a search of the archives before posting this question and ended up downloading Mail::Bulkmail. I think maybe it is the answer, but I couldn't understand whether, in MailMerge mode, it still suffers from the same problem or not.

In reply to Personalized emails with SendMail by Elliott

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