Re: OT - massive newsletter

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, mizzio wrote:

> I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core
> machine for sending out a periodic newsletter (10 millions a
> month).
>
> In order to avoid any possible blacklisting problem, I'm looking
> for all the best practices.

As others have said, explicitly verified subscription.

You might consider using mailing-list software such as mailman, which allows people to subscribe and unsubscribe and takes care of verification of subscriptions.

I don't know how it would behave under a 10M-subscriber load, though.

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