Take a look at Auth SMTP http://www.authsmtp.com/auth-smtp/pricing.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "Super Steve" <[email protected]> To: "NZ PHP Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:14 AM Subject: [phpug] Re: Sending Bulk Email Options I've just had a quick look at smtp.com and from what I can see their highest plan, "Executive", only allows for 600 messages per day. Doesn't seem like they want to handle 25,000 messages in one go! On Apr 15, 4:52 pm, Dan Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > I know this is not answering what you originally asked, but as per the > recent discussion, smtp.com offers a cheap email gateway - just change > your outgoing smtp server settings and send as fast as you like > through your existing application. > > Cheers, > -Dan > > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Jochen Daum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Super Steve <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> I've got a client with a 25,000 record database of contacts that they > >> want to send emails to on a regular basis. All legit (i.e. not spam) > >> and opted in and we offer an opt-out link on all messages. > > >> I've got a small contacts system that I wrote that handles all the > >> maintaining of contacts and sending of emails, but so far I've only > >> used it for clients that have a few thousand contacts. > > >> I loaded the 25,000 contacts into the database and sent out the first > >> email, but the company that hosts the site rang me to complain about > >> the size of the mailout and that it had slowed down their mail > >> server. Even though I had tried to ease the load on the servers by > >> sending 100 emails at a time and then pausing for a minute before > >> sending the next 100, the large number of emails (and bounce backs > >> from bad addresses) had caused them some problems. > > >> The hosting company suggested that if I want to send such large > >> numbers of emails that I should get my own mail server or use a third- > >> party. Fair enough, they are afterall a web hosting company and not > >> an email provider. > > >> So now I'm looking at other options. I've found the likes of > >> mailchimp.com and campaignmonitor.com, and while they appear to be > >> cheap at 1 cent per email they start to get a bit expensive when > >> you're talking about 25,000 emails (and remember that pricing is in US > >> $). > > >> What's involved in running my own mail server? I'm a small time > >> developer that works from home and I only have a humble Vodafone > >> broadband connection. I assume that running my own mail server would > >> obviously use my own data allowance, and may indeed be against my > >> ISP's terms and conditions. > > >> Are there any other options open to me? I could afford maybe $100 per > >> mailing of 25,000. > > > Just get a VPOS or virtual server set up and authenticated SMTP setup on > > it. > > > Example from a marketing email I got from Webdrive today: Virtual > > server $89 per month, Auth smtp install: $100 one off (my own > > experience with them). > > > HTH, Jochen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
