If you're really serious in delivering email for business purposes I would in general avoid trying to do any mass mailings yourself and use a professional email delivery firm. Everybody hates spam and mail admins have gotten more strict with who they will allow mail to be received from, using blacklists, whitelists, reverse-DNS lookups like SPF, etc. that if you really need to make sure your email is delivered use a firm. Some firms have "most-favored nation status" with large ISPs like AOL, etc. so they know if the sender is this firm they partner with they will give it a higher degree of trust because they have relationships in place to make sure they won't send junk to AOL. If you write a program that just starts spewing out emails through an SMTP server your Inbox arrival percentage will not be as high over time.
On 8/22/07, Nick Zadrozny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > I'm curious about the current state of mass emailing in Rails. I'm about > to start work on a site for a company that wants to be able to send > marketing emails to its members every now and then and I haven't done a > whole lot of work with ActionMailer. I recall seeing some interesting > software and techniques for this sort of thing mentioned here in the past > but can't seem to dig up those emails. > > > I'd love to hear about experiences you guys have had sending out large > batches of emails in Rails, as well as any links to articles or plugins you > might know of. > > -- > Nick Zadrozny • beyondthepath.com > > _______________________________________________ > Sdruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby > >
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