I really am sorry to waste valuable resources and post an OT question... but I am really stuck.

here's the deal: my company uses another company to send the newsletter to the (25000+) mailing list... and the boss decided to check if we can run our own mailings ( actually for sake of cost ).

I found out that Sendmail uses a lot of resources, and I can't actually run a perl script on the websites server to send the emails... I assume it will jam the server up.

so we thought of installing a local server, that we will use to send emails... we don't want to recieve emails through... just use it to send emails.

what kind of resource would we need? that's the question. I mean, is it just like installing linux on a PC, plugging in a modem, and hacking scripts that use sendmail? or does the machine has to have a public ip and a domain like a normal http server?

I really don't know much about the topic, and would appreciate some help or resources.

once again.. thanx, and sorry for the OT question.

He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to (OT) Sending emails by Chady

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