For the past two years I have been sending out our monthly newsletter to our customers using the following code -- I've wanted to post here for a while and ask: Is there a way to send out an email to a few thousand people (4000) in ONE step? It is very important that BCC is used (for obvious reasons). Also, when I use the code below, it takes over an hour for the emails to get sent. During this period when someone visits our site, a visitor will occasionally get an internal server error which I'm think is related somehow to the mail/sendmail program.

Basically, I just want to know a quicker way to send out an email to a lot of people using BCC that sendmail can handle and that won't create errors. Just a note, this is not a spam email - these are emails we've accumulated over the past four years.

Thanks in advance!

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl

require "Lite.pm";

$address = "hgy.emllst";    # file with email addresses
$email_template = "email-sept-20-06.html";  # the 'email' in html form
+at (looks pretty)
$subject = "News for September 2006";

open(E,$email_template);
@F = <E>;
close(E);
$filehtml = join("",@F);

## open up the file with the email addresses
open(A,$address) || die "could not open $address for reading\n";

## read in the email addresses into the address array
@addresses = <A>;

## for each address in the list
for ($i=0; $i < @addresses; $i++) 
{
if ($addresses[$i] ne "")
{
## send the customer an email
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
                           From     =>'news@xxxxxxxx.com',
                           To       =>"$addresses[$i]",
                           Subject  =>"$subject",
                           Type     =>'text/html',
                           Data     =>"$filehtml");
$msg->send();

}
}

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