#!/usr/bin/perl
######################################################################
+##
# This little guy will send out your newsletters AMAZINGLY fast.
# I do 90,000 recipients (approximately 20kb newsletter) in approximat
+ely
# 15 minutes with it.
# 
# Be *sure*, and I mean absolutely POSITIVELY sure that your email
# list is sorted by domain. all aol.com's together, all yahoo.com's
# together, etc. THAT IS *VERY* IMPORTANT, if it will not be sorted
# then you sacrifice pretty much all the speed of this thing.
# You also need to install Mail::Bulkmail module.
#
# Val Polyakov    August 11, 2002
# vpolyakov@katrillion.com
######################################################################
+##
use Mail::Bulkmail;
$/ = undef;

# Path to a something.list that contains email addresses to send 
# the newsletters to. One address per line, in the file
$list = </home/ds2/test/*.list>;

# Path to something.msg which is the actual newsletter
$msg = </home/ds2/test/*.msg>;

# Path to the error log
$errfile = "/home/ds2/test/log/error.log";

# Path to the success log
$success = "/home/ds2/test/log/success.log";

open(NEWSLETTER, $msg) or die "Couldnt open message file\n";

$newsletter = <NEWSLETTER>;


$bulk = Mail::Bulkmail->new(
                "LIST" => $list,
                "From" => 'vpolyakov@katrillion.com',
                "Subject" => 'Default subject',      
                "Message" => $newsletter,
                "ERRFILE" => $errfile,
                "HTML" => '1',
                "use_envelope" => '1',
                "BAD" => $errfile,
                "GOOD" => $success
);
$bulk->HFM(1);
$bulk->envelope_limit(1000);
$bulk->header("Content-type", "text/html");
$bulk->bulkmail;

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