Re: Best practices for sending bulk (+4000) mail in Django / Python

2008-04-23 Thread James Tauber
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:11:02 +1000, "Malcolm Tredinnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Another possibility is to use some sort of queueing system or service so > that the emails are inserted into the queue and then sent over an > extended period of time. django-mailer is intended to be used for ex

Re: Best practices for sending bulk (+4000) mail in Django / Python

2008-04-23 Thread Doug B
I haven't send near 8000 messages yet, but what I did was a combination of what Malcom suggested. I setup a model to queue the messages (pickled email.MIMEMultipart) with a priority, and a cron that runs occasionally to dump N messages per mx domain over time so the mailing trickles out. to the l

Re: Best practices for sending bulk (+4000) mail in Django / Python

2008-04-23 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 07:03 -0700, gorans wrote: > Hi, > > I've been sending out email to a list of around 8000 people on a > monthly basis using django and was wondering whether there is a way to > optimise the process. > > Currently, I open a mail connection [ mail_connection = > SMTPConnecti