Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
2009/10/18 Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 01:41:03AM -0400, Brian Hazelton wrote: I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent out in time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and right now we have 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can scale well regardless of the number of subscribers. Right now I use mysql to store the email and use phpmailer in a loop to send an email to each of the emails in the db, it is already slow with just 400(takes around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). Has anyone built a broadcast email script and willing to help me? Use PHPList. It's free. Paul I second that and make sure you add an SPF Key to your domain: http://old.openspf.org/wizard.html You should be able to get the SMTP limits from your host and these can be configured in PHPlist. The bounce handling takes away a lot of admin work once your list starts getting larger and people's email addresses change/stop working. Tom
Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
- Original Message From: Brian Hazelton bdh_2...@comcast.net To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Fri, October 16, 2009 10:41:03 PM Subject: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent out in time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and right now we have 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can scale well regardless of the number of subscribers. Right now I use mysql to store the email and use phpmailer in a loop to send an email to each of the emails in the db, it is already slow with just 400(takes around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). Has anyone built a broadcast email script and willing to help me? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Brian, Sounds like you're sending 1 email address at the time. I haven't build any yet but here some ideas. If the subscribers are getting the exact same material, you could do batch fetch of several say 20 or more of email address (check with your SMTP server limit) and send them all via BCC. You could knock that out easily. If only some subscribers get the same content, you can then fetch the batch email addresses by filtering the content they're supposed to receive. The speed at which your email goes out depends on the SMTP server (delay, queue, hardware, attachment size, etc). Here's a pseudo code: // fetch email addresses in batch size - within limit of SMTP server // create email with addresses in BCC - loop through batch to create BCC // send mail. // update db for the sent addresses // rinse and repeat until all emails are sent. Regards, Tommy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
- Original Message From: George Langley george.lang...@shaw.ca To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Fri, October 16, 2009 10:56:42 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer Hi there. At what point would it be beneficial to subscribe to a mass mail service such as Constant Contact or iContact, to avoid being blacklisted for sending too many e-mails? George On 16-Oct-09, at 11:41 PM, Brian Hazelton wrote: I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent out in time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and right now we have 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can scale well regardless of the number of subscribers. Right now I use mysql to store the email and use phpmailer in a loop to send an email to each of the emails in the db, it is already slow with just 400(takes around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). Has anyone built a broadcast email script and willing to help me? --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 Good point, George. Forgot about that ... hehe. My reply went out just as yours came in. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
I thought about doing a batch email, is that an accepted practice, also how do I find my smtp server limit? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
- Original Message From: Brian Hazelton bdh_2...@comcast.net To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Fri, October 16, 2009 11:11:06 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer I thought about doing a batch email, is that an accepted practice, also how do I find my smtp server limit? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Brian, As George mentioned, beware of getting blacklisted. Try to randomize the batch fetch so you're less likely to spam the receiving server(s). As for getting the SMTP server limit, It's beyond the scope of this list. You'll need to contact your server/network admin. The method varies on SMTP server (SENDMAIL, MS SMTP/Exchange, etc). Regards, Tommy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
On 16-Oct-09, at 11:56 PM, George Langley wrote: At what point would it be beneficial to subscribe to a mass mail service such as Constant Contact or iContact, to avoid being blacklisted for sending too many e-mails? On 17-Oct-09, at 12:01 AM, Brian Hazelton wrote: I am sorry, but I am confused by your question. I thought that these companies worked with email providers to stay off the blacklists? --- They do - my point exactly. You may be fine for a small mass e-mail campaign (you mentioned 400 but growing). But if you do grow to the point of something getting triggered, and your URL or server, or worse, your ISP, gets black-listed, it may be hard to undo the damage. Am not sure what sort of limits any of these will allow before they start thinking you are spamming. Or how big you have to be to be considered trust-worthy to be allowed to send multiple e-mails. My main ISP (shaw.ca - 100s of 1,000s of customers) has gotten blacklisted a number of times, and suddenly friends would get e-mails to my @shaw address rejected, and had to start using one of my other addresses. A very tiny mail list I belonged to (40 people if even that) refused to send to all of its @shaw members, and I ended up re- registering under a different address because it happened enough times. The company I work for has internal clamps that get triggered if anyone tries to send to more than 50 addresses. They also run a separate mail server from their web site hosting. The site is hosted on Amazon's Cloud - a huge company, and yet every one of their IPs are black-listed: http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid201_gci1371369,00.html The result was that even just a single e-mail to confirm registration to the member-only section of the site was getting flagged as spam by hotmail, or rejected outright by some other mail servers. Kinda hard to complete a registration if you never see the e- mail! We ended up relaying through our own mail server, which is fine for a one-at-a-time e-mail. But at over 50,000 customers, I have been strongly recommending the use of service if they do decide to start any mass e-mail newsletters or campaigns. Anyway, my point is - how important is this part of your business, and would it be worth the $ cost to use a service, rather than building, maintaining and potentially protecting your own? Just a thought. George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 01:41:03AM -0400, Brian Hazelton wrote: I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent out in time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and right now we have 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can scale well regardless of the number of subscribers. Right now I use mysql to store the email and use phpmailer in a loop to send an email to each of the emails in the db, it is already slow with just 400(takes around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). Has anyone built a broadcast email script and willing to help me? Use PHPList. It's free. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent out in time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and right now we have 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can scale well regardless of the number of subscribers. Right now I use mysql to store the email and use phpmailer in a loop to send an email to each of the emails in the db, it is already slow with just 400(takes around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). Has anyone built a broadcast email script and willing to help me? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
Hi there. At what point would it be beneficial to subscribe to a mass mail service such as Constant Contact or iContact, to avoid being blacklisted for sending too many e-mails? George On 16-Oct-09, at 11:41 PM, Brian Hazelton wrote: I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent out in time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and right now we have 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can scale well regardless of the number of subscribers. Right now I use mysql to store the email and use phpmailer in a loop to send an email to each of the emails in the db, it is already slow with just 400(takes around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). Has anyone built a broadcast email script and willing to help me? -- 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
