Thanks for your advices, I think we will end up in letting one of the existing specialists do the silly job for us :).
NB : the business point of view is always welcome :) Le 28/03/2013 17:43, Jonathan Vanasco a écrit : > The cheapest option would be to host the images on Amazon S3 and send > the email with Amazon SES. SES charges a 10¢ CPM , and data transfer > in is free ( so you don't have to run the app on EC2 ). You do pay > bandwidth, but it's their standard 12¢/GB charge. Your effective CPM > ends up being around 13¢. > > If you drop the pyramid/sqla dependency, this $59 app installs on php > +mysql and does custom campaigns -- http://sendy.co The downside is > that it's not open source and there's no api. > > All that being said... if I had to do mass mailing + pyramid/sqla, i'd > probably do it like this: > > - EC2 instance handles sending emails though SES + the bouncing + the > receipt tracking > - EC2 instance has an API that lets you drop a "payload" file of > addresses + content for processing , then triggers it > - EC2 instance has another API that does periodic data dumps and > polling > > the reason i'd offload onto a dedicated EC2 system, is that mass > emails tend to have more annoying concurrency issues. too many people > read the damn thing at similar times, so tracking beacons can > bottleneck. dealing with all the sending / bouncing can be a strain > on your resources -- and you'll likely want to do "warmups" on your IP > in order to deal with ISPs and email companies blocking you. warmup > is when you let emails trickle out, first by the dozen , then > hundreds, then thousands -- if your IP gets flagged from suddenly > sending too many emails, it gets blacklisted. > > If money isn't an object though, i'd definitely go with piping emails > to SendGrid or SailThru which both have robust APIs. SailThru is more > expensive but totally worth it. Managing your own outgoing email is a > fucking pain -- after you get all the DKIM+SPF stuff set up, you have > to start and maintain relationships with major providers like AOL, > Yahoo, MSN, etc to deal with bounce and false-postivie patterns. > That's nearly a fulltime job. I prefer letting vendors like those 2 > handle it. They're both better products and better priced than > companies like ConstantContact, MailChimp, etc > > sorry if i got too much into the business side - i oversaw daily and > weekly newsletters for a handful of premium publishers. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
