I've built a Lasso driven web site for a client and I'm now adding a way for him to
pick out a group of registered users by various criteria (for example those who've
expressed an interest in x) and send them all an e-mail. All very obvious & simple!
I say 'bulk-ish' in the subject line because the likely number is not going to be
10,000s, but might possibly be 100s in the future.
However, there are a couple of things that I'm not sure about when deciding whether to
send one e-mail and put all the users' addresses as BCCs or to send each an individual
e-mail. I _don't_ need to personalise the e-mails ("Dear Mr Smith..."), by the way.
I know that as long as I increased the max incoming SMTP connections limit for SIMS, I
can send quite a large number of individual e-mails at once (at least 100 if the
connection limit is at 100 - what a suprise!). However, I assume that if there were
more address than SIMS's largest max SMTP connection number, then I'd be in trouble.
Most of the time I imagine there will be only 5 - 50 addresses, but I want to make
sure that it can cope with occasional mailings to larger numbers, especially because
Lasso doesn't provide for reporting failed e-mail attempts to the user - unless I get
it right there could be an unfortunate situation where the e-mail doesn't go but the
client thinks that it has. =:-O
Because of the above I think that the BCC method is probably better, but if I do put
all the addresses as BCCs:
1) Might this get filtered as spam by some people, if their address isn't in the 'To'
field?
2) What's the maximum number of BCCs I can attach to one message?
TIA,
James Harvard
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