In article <v03130303b770f0719e21@[24.104.7.214]>, Charlie Summers charlie@lofcom.com writes:

At 11:22 AM -0400 7/10/01, KEVIN ZEMBOWER is rumored to have typed:

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Is this an appropriate use of SmartList, or should I consider some other solution?

This is not, IMHO, an appropriate use of SmartList. SmartList is designed to use uncluded externals to send the same message to "batches" of addressees at a time; what you want to do is send seperate messages to each addressee (as a seperate entry in the mail queue), changing the content of the message (the header is part of the message) for each mail. Therefore you would have to rework so much of SmartList that it would make more sense to write something yourself.

Not really true. I think it would be sufficient to write a "choplist" replacement: something that travels through the dist file, inserting each address it finds into the "To" header and handing it off to the mail server.

It's not clear whether that would be a particularly good solution. It would increase by quite a lot the amount of bandwidth and RAM you use. If you're not hosting a lot of really large lists, that may not turn out to be an issue. Other mailing list managers also use a single message per recipient, but they get really precise bounce processing as a result. (I don't know if it would be easy to munge the "To" headers in the same fashion with other MTAs.)