Re: Sorting a list by frequency of items

For legitimate bulkmail you might check into Mail::Bulkmail on CPAN. I haven't used it but I've looked into it before and it looks as if it does something like you're interested in, specifically optimizing the mail sending by batching recipients on the same domain (so, for example, it sends all the yahoo.com folks at once instead of individually.) It's suppossed to be very fast, and might be what you need.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

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Re: Re: Sorting a list by frequency of items by GuruX (Initiate) on Mar 23, 2001 at 08:08 UTC
Yes indeed Mail::Bulkmail does exactally what you need. It's super fast and even more so when you use the use_envelope method. What use_envelope does is send one message to each server and a list of people on that server who are to receive said message. I also like the merge features but by using them you loose the ability to call use_envelope Also see Mail::CheckUser, which allows you to check the format of the email address for correctness, check that domain's DNS for a MX record, and them will connect to destination server and do a VRFY on the user to make sure it's valid, which is a good way to clean up your list. Jason Miller, Perl Geek CTO - Digital Campaigns, INC.	[reply]

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by GuruX (Initiate) on Mar 23, 2001 at 08:08 UTC

Yes indeed Mail::Bulkmail does exactally what you need. It's super fast and even more so when you use the use_envelope method. What use_envelope does is send one message to each server and a list of people on that server who are to receive said message. I also like the merge features but by using them you loose the ability to call use_envelope

Also see Mail::CheckUser, which allows you to check the format of the email address for correctness, check that domain's DNS for a MX record, and them will connect to destination server and do a VRFY on the user to make sure it's valid, which is a good way to clean up your list.

Jason Miller, Perl Geek
CTO - Digital Campaigns, INC.

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