Tobi wrote:
I don't know your recipien lists.
If they are random you should definitely consider sorting the addresses by domains.
python solution for presorting mailing lists (quick hack):
#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
# sort email adresses by domain
# Karsten W. Rohrbach <alpha@webmonster.de>
import sys
def swappy(input):
output = []
for el in input:
try:
one,two = el.split('@')
output.append('@'.join([two,one]))
except Exception:
output.append(input)
return output
try:
f = open(sys.argv[1], 'r')
outfile = open(sys.argv[2], 'w')
except Exception, e:
print "syntax:", sys.argv[0], "<infile> <outfile>"
sys.exit(99)
adx = []
adx = f.readlines()
f.close()
ad2 = swappy(adx)
del adx
ad2.sort()
ad3 = swappy(ad2)
del ad2
outfile.write(''.join(ad3))
outfile.close()This is a quick hack and needs a bit more than 2 times the RAM of your mailing list size.
Works for me, anyway ;-)
Regards,
/k