# Bulk Emailers

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bulk-emailers/143380>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 17, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bulk-emailers/143380 "2008-07-17T22:09:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Stegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Stegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stegg)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bulk-emailers/143380/1 "2008-07-17T22:09:18Z")

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I’m looking to create a bulk emailer in an existing RoR application  
and I’m having a hard time finding resources out there on how to  
accomplish this. It will be for a mailing list of 12k+. Any advice  
or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Stegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Stegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stegg)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bulk-emailers/143380/2 "2008-07-17T22:40:58Z")

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Try some combination of ar\_mailer and BackgrounDrb.

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**Author:** ![Stegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Stegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stegg)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bulk-emailers/143380/3 "2008-07-17T23:07:55Z")

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I’m curious about this too. We send around 15k system emails a day. My  
concern is whether running these would impair the app’s performance, at  
least in other areas.

Because of this I decided to use script/runner to run the process in the  
background. It seems to run pretty descent on my dev machine.

Curious of anyone else’s experience in doing this.