[Foss4g2008loc] bulk e-mailing for mass marketing of FOSS4G2008

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

I'm starting to use CiviCRM (within Drupal) to track my contacts,  
group memberships, donations and (eventually) bulk mailouts, etc..

I'm sure bang for the buck makes the other mentioned approaches  
better though at this point.
Tyler

On 23-Jan-08, at 10:06 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> I used a perl bulk mailing module and this short program to turn it  
> over.  Worked a treat, for both marketing spam and mass-mails to  
> conference goers, allowed mail merge and everything.
>
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> if ( @ARGV < 3 ) {
>
>   die "Usage: $0 <datafile.txt> <mailfile.txt> 'Subject Line'\n\n";
>
> }
>
> $datafile = $ARGV[0];
> $mailfile = $ARGV[1];
> $subject = $ARGV[2];
>
> $message = `cat $mailfile`;
> $datatmp = "/tmp/datafile-$$.txt";
>
> open( DATA, $datafile );
> open( OUT, ">$datatmp" );
>
> $linecount = 0;
> while( <DATA> ) {
>   $linecount++;
>   if ( $linecount == 1 ) {
>     chop;
>     @line = split(/\t/);
>     for( my $i = 0; $i < @line; $i++ ) {
>       if ( $line[$i] =~ /email/ ) {
>         $line[$i] = "BULK_EMAIL";
>       } else {
>         $line[$i] = "<<" . $line[$i] . ">>";
>       }
>     }
>   }
>   else {
>     print OUT;
>   }
> }
>
> close(DATA);
> close(OUT);
>
> use Mail::Bulkmail::Dynamic "./massmail.cfg";
>
> my $bulk = Mail::Bulkmail::Dynamic->new(
>   "merge_keys" => \@line,
>   "force80" => 0,
>   "merge_delimiter" => "\t",
>   "LIST" => $datatmp,
>   "From" => "FOSS4G 2007 <info\@foss4g2007.org>",
>   "Subject" => $subject,
>   "Message" => $message,
>   "server_file" => "./server.file"
>   ) || die Mail::Bulkmail::Dynamic->error();
>
> $bulk->bulkmail() || die $bulk->error;
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I was about to mention that it would be nice to eat our own dog
>> food...sourceforge has 178 matches for 'bulk mailer':
>> http://tinyurl.com/3dfe42 one of which I'm sure must meet your
>> needs...179 if you include Pauls offering...
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> 2008/1/23, Paul Scott <pscott at uwc.ac.za>:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:38 +0200, Gavin Fleming wrote:
>>>> On Paul R's recommendation to spam lots
>>>> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/ 
>>>> FOSS4G2007_Lessons_Learned#How_People_Heard_about_FOSS4G2007 ),  
>>>> I had this recommendation for a bulk emailer called WorldCast  
>>>> (http://www.fairlogic.com/). What did 2007 use?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I wrote a bulk mailer a while back for a newsletter system that you
>>> could use as well. It is free software, and you can always ask the
>>> developer for features without waiting in line... ;)
>>>
>>> --Paul
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> -- 
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