The code below works (when used with real addresses etc.). It sends a weekly email newsletter out via a very simple HTML form. Right now I simply paste the email mailing list into the script. Eventually, it will talk to a MySQL database.

Honestly, I wasn't really expecting this to get very large. I greatly underestimated the popularity of my client. She is getting about 100 people signing up for her newsletter every week.

I am worried that this code is simply not robust enough for a large mailing list. For example, could it time out before delivering all the messages if the email list got too long?

Please let me know how I can improve this script as: (a) the mailing list grows, (b) I intergrate it with MySQL, and (c) I eventually turn the mailing of the newsletter over to office staff. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

my $request = new CGI;

my @emaillist = ("name\@domain.com","anothername\@anotherdomain.com");

my $messagebody = "";

my @form_fields = $request -> param;

my $thankyoupage = 'http://www.domain.com/Thanks.html';

my $field = "";
foreach $field (@form_fields)  {
  my $value = $request -> param ($field);
  my $f = uc ($field);
  $messagebody .= $value . "\n\n";
}

my $n = "";
foreach $n (@emaillist)  {

open(MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t") or die "Could not open Sendmail \
+n\n  $!";
print MAIL "To: $n\n";
print MAIL "From: newsletter\@domain.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: The Weekly Newsletter\n";
print MAIL "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print MAIL "$messagebody\n\n";
close(MAIL) or die "Could not close Sendmail \n\n $!";

}

print "Location: $thankyoupage\n\n";
exit;

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