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Does anyone have any existing code for a double opt-in mailing list system based on Rails? Wouldn''t be hard for me to make one, but I don''t want to reinvent the wheel if someone else has already done it and published the code somewhere? It''s for one-way mailshots only. I don''t need to do much more than collect email addresses of interested people - if the system can do the sending that''s a bonus but really not necessary. A database table populated with email addresses, where people can remove themselves, is more than good enough. It...

Has anyone found a good method of mass mailing a bunch of people (100k) using RoR yet? I have always used a scheduled task to run a ColdFusion page every x minutes to send out blocks of about 7500 (sending the full 100k crashed the page) and this worked pretty well and now we are migrating all out sites to ruby, I seed to do something similar. Thanks in advance, James