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Hi David.

You might want to build this in a modular way with respect to the 
mailing lists generated by your queries. In other words, design such 
that IF someday you wanted to offload the actual mailing part, you could 
do so by just delivering the list in "standard" format. You might look 
at some list vendors to see what formats they provide for their lists 
(ascii, comma delimited, etc)

The reasons relate to spam and spam filtering, domain banning, and 
Nazi-like overzealousness. Too much to go into here :-) 

In general I strongly advise clients NOT to send bulk mail from a valued 
domain; it's simply too risky. So... it seems wise to be able to 
outsource the SEND easly when appropriate.

-=john andrews
http://www.seo-fun.com






David Mintz dmintz-at-davidmintz.org |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:

>Planning to roll my own MySQL/PHP-based mass emailer. Why? Because the
>recipient list isn't a semi-static, monolithic thing. The admin user needs
>to be able to select subsets of people/addresses from a database based on
>various criteria.  (This is your chance to point me to an existing (free)
>tool that can do or be adapted to do this -- I haven't found any.)
>
>So here's my (first) question:  What constitutes a well-formed HTML email
>body? Is there a "right" way -- other than getting the MIME headers right?
>I would assume that your email body should be just like the BODY element
>of any valid HTML document -- a regular HTML document minus the HEAD
>element.
>
>Hopefully I can make this a well-made and abstract enough beast to merit
>sharing once it's done.
>
>Thanks!
>
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>David Mintz
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