# Help for a newsletter system..is ar\_mailer the right choice?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-a-newsletter-system-is-ar-mailer-the-right-choice/146524>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-a-newsletter-system-is-ar-mailer-the-right-choice/146524 "2008-08-21T23:14:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-a-newsletter-system-is-ar-mailer-the-right-choice/146524/1 "2008-08-21T23:14:36Z")

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Hi, i’ve to build a simple newsletter system for a client and for the  
begin he will have something like 5-6000 contacts (that’s how much has  
now) and probably he will get to 25-30000 contacts until the end of the  
year. Searching on google i found that ar\_mailer is good for newsletter  
systems. But i didn’t find how many contacts would manage without  
problems. My fear is that include so many contacts in a table would take  
quite a lot (it’s not a problem if them are delivered during some days,  
but the time to include them in the queue should/must be very low  
(=seconds)).  
What do you think? Anyone has experience with ar\_mailer (or something  
else) and many contacts to manage?

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**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-a-newsletter-system-is-ar-mailer-the-right-choice/146524/2 "2008-10-11T15:31:40Z")

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Xdmx X. wrote:

> Hi, i’ve to build a simple newsletter system for a client and for the  
> begin he will have something like 5-6000 contacts (that’s how much has  
> now) and probably he will get to 25-30000 contacts until the end of the  
> year. Searching on google i found that ar\_mailer is good for newsletter  
> systems. But i didn’t find how many contacts would manage without  
> problems. My fear is that include so many contacts in a table would take  
> quite a lot (it’s not a problem if them are delivered during some days,  
> but the time to include them in the queue should/must be very low  
> (=seconds)).  
> What do you think? Anyone has experience with ar\_mailer (or something  
> else) and many contacts to manage?

Hi Xdmx,

How did you get on with this? I’m in need of a similar solution right  
now; I was about to start coding on a newsletter resource but, it really  
feels like this is probably something that has been nailed by other  
people and I’ll just be re-inventing the wheel…