Re: [PHP] Mass email
Before considering outsourcing this you should consider the following. 1. Frequency of emails, I.e daily, weekly, monthly etc. 2. Hosting, are you on dedicated servers, shared hosting. a) do you control the domain name, enough to enable rDNS. b) does your hosting company restrict out going emails? I had issues with and1 doing this 3. Do you expect to increase the number of emails being sent? If your expecting to send out frequently, and have close control over what each recipient is sent you will most likely have to work with an Api or look at creating an email system yourself. I spent a couple of days writing an email system for a client and ourselves, Sent from my iPhone On 21 Oct 2008, at 08:54, Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client who wants to send out mass emails to 37,000+ opt-in members (i.e., not spam). Any suggestions as to the best way to do this? Outsource it. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mass email
I have a client who wants to send out mass emails to 37,000+ opt-in members (i.e., not spam). Any suggestions as to the best way to do this? Outsource it. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Mass email
Hi gang: I have a client who wants to send out mass emails to 37,000+ opt-in members (i.e., not spam). Any suggestions as to the best way to do this? Thanks, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mass email
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:24 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang: I have a client who wants to send out mass emails to 37,000+ opt-in members (i.e., not spam). Any suggestions as to the best way to do this? Letting a third party such as AWeber[1] handle it may be your best bet. No worries about the obvious things like code maintenance and blacklisting, nor the minor things like ISP mail-cap limits, bad reverse-DNS issues, and so forth. http://www.aweber.com/ -- /Daniel P. Brown http://www.parasane.net/ [New Look] [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mass email
On 20 Oct 2008, at 22:24, tedd wrote: I have a client who wants to send out mass emails to 37,000+ opt-in members (i.e., not spam). Any suggestions as to the best way to do this? In my experience it's easiest to outsource this once you get past a few thousand subscribers otherwise you'll quickly discover it's not as simple as it sounds. There are several off-the-shelf systems, some written in PHP, but I can only offer a review of the one that I've used. That was phplist but for nowhere near that number of subscribers so I have no idea how it would perform. It's definitely worth checking out: http://www.phplist.com/ I wrote up a few tips a while back which you may find useful: http://stut.net/blog/2008/06/18/sending-email/ One of these days I'll find time to clean up and release my home-grown solution for this, a little something I call Phostal. It's a long way off being ready for public consumption but it regularly sends emails to a subscriber base of over 800k users as well as several smaller lists, automatically handles bounces, implements several unsubscribe mechanisms and includes open tracking. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mass email
tedd wrote: Hi gang: I have a client who wants to send out mass emails to 37,000+ opt-in members (i.e., not spam). Any suggestions as to the best way to do this? It's been on the list a few times but personally I'd check out commercial software first, then look at doing your own. The commercial software has done all the hard work of testing, checking duplicates, stuff like that, no point in re-doing all of that. I'm sure someone will suggest phplist but the interface is terrible IMO. -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mass email
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 08:39 +1100, Chris wrote: tedd wrote: Hi gang: I have a client who wants to send out mass emails to 37,000+ opt-in members (i.e., not spam). Any suggestions as to the best way to do this? It's been on the list a few times but personally I'd check out commercial software first, then look at doing your own. The commercial software has done all the hard work of testing, checking duplicates, stuff like that, no point in re-doing all of that. I'm sure someone will suggest phplist but the interface is terrible IMO. Yes, the phplist seriously blow. The other suggestion, aweber, sucks for seamless integration. Their terms of usage disallow you to create a transparent bridge to sign up users even if they opted-in already in your own registration. You have to force them explicitly onto the aweber site. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Mass email with php on a windows server
I use a while loop and the mail function to send email to all subscribers of a site. This works fine for 50 users but I know there can be some problems when you do it like this for 1000 users. Eg. Limit of page execution is exceeded and even server crashes because each time a mail is send a socket is opened and closed again. Now I have found some functions (fsock_open of an SMTP service) and some pear classes Unfortunately I have a windows server hosting that site. Anyone knows how to do mass email on a windows server? Thx in advance Reinhart No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.7 - Release Date: 1/03/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
