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Ask Soylent: Sending Email at a Measured Pace

posted by janrinok on Sunday October 23 2016, @03:54AM   
from the over-to-you dept.

From 2 very Anonymous Cowards:

Two of us volunteer to manage a private website with about 700 members, constantly rotating in and out (they are mostly undergrad students). For this we use low cost webhosting and recently found out that the email account (same ISP & domain name) only allows 60 outgoing emails/hour. Thus when we want to email the whole membership (a couple of times per year) we are going to have to break the list into a dozen pieces.

It would be nicer if we could submit the whole list at once. We don't mind if the emails are sent "drip feed" with one going out every minute or so.

Anyone ever seen anything like this? I tried a few search strings and didn't find anything, but my Google-fu may be bad today.

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Original Submission

• unix makes it possible unix makes it possible (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @04:06AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @04:06AM (#417743)

  (cat /tmp/list|while read foo;do cat /tmp/spam|mail $foo;sleep 60;done) &

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• Re:unix makes it possible (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:00PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:00PM (#418643)

  Exactly. This is a question easy enough for my 70 years old mother to solve by herself. Goddamn this Eternal September and all the Micro$oft power users who struggle to even change the background image...

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