[Mailman-Users] Need mail merge capability
Neil Cooler
ncooler at nandomedia.com
Thu Jun 7 00:09:55 CEST 2001
Can you do this with sendmail?
It would be really sweet to be able to put a link at the bottom of a
posting like:
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-Neil
On 06 Jun 2001 18:00:21 -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>
> >>>>> "NB" == Norbert Bollow <nb at norbert.ch> writes:
>
> NB> Use qmail (with the verh patch) as MTA.
>
> >> No - this would require Mailman to do deliveries one address at
> >> a time rather than batched, and so would cost much more in
> >> terms of delivery.
>
> NB> The way around this is that replacing the tag must be done by
> NB> the MTA at the time of sending out the message via SMTP.
>
> Ah, let's try this FAQ entry:
>
> Q. Can I put the user's address in the footer that Mailman adds to
> each message?
>
> A. No. The reason is that, for efficiency, Mailman batches together
> message delivery for many users at once. Putting the user's
> address in the footer would require Mailman to craft a unique
> message for each recipient, and this would likely unacceptably bog
> down your system.
>
> Some MTAs (e.g. Qmail) provide a facility known as VERP, which may
> be used to accomplish this. You'll need to investigate the
> configuration options of your MTA for details.
>
> -Barry
>
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