Ian,
One other strategy that I’ve found very helpful is to use multiple SMTP IPs. It seems that many services start ignoring incoming email from an IP after x emails per hour. So I’ve set my system up so that I have mail0.site.com mail1.site.com, etc. Each subdomain has proper DNS records, reverse DNS, the whole works. Then my TAFs rotate through the SMTP servers and sending the email. I try to keep each IP to 100,000 emails per day. Also, span the emails through the day, don’t send 20,000 in one hour and the none the next, send roughly the same amount each hour. Robert From: Ian Daniel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 5:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: TeraScript-Talk: Off-Topic: Sending of Bulk Mail That is Integrated with an Application Thanks, Robert: Yes, we have been pretty good with removing bounces, excluding auto-responders, etc. We’ve got that pretty well cased. Thanks … Ian From: Robert Shubert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: February-22-13 3:27 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: TeraScript-Talk: Off-Topic: Sending of Bulk Mail That is Integrated with an Application Ian, It’s very possible to create a high performance email process with TeraScript. If you design your application such that it reuses the same connection, and use an outgoing email server with good SMTP performance, you should be able to send millions of emails each day. The biggest challenge is making sure that you remove any bounces from your list. To do this you need to set the FROM address to an account that you can monitor automatically. For best results, I’ve created my own email header. Typically I set the header to an encrypted string with some pertinent details so that when an email bounce comes back, I can locate that header/string, and use its contents to figure out who/what to remove. In general its best to build the header manually and make sure its meticulous. More sophisticated systems might remove after 3 bounces, sniff out auto responders, or have more logic in determining when an email is truly unusable. You can actually get quite complex if you need to. It’s an industry all its own, thus there are sites like Constant Contact. Robert From: Ian Daniel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 3:10 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: TeraScript-Talk: Off-Topic: Sending of Bulk Mail That is Integrated with an Application Hello, All: I haven’t posted for a long while … but I have a question for the group … We have used various email sending services, including our own, for large volume email lists of opt-in email, with varying degrees of success. Like most of you, our email is integrated with our various database-driven systems. We don’t want to outsource it, but we want to achieve optimal deliverability – at a reasonable price. What is an optimal solution at a low price point, for successfully sending large volume email (bypassing the junk mail folder), outside of turning it all over to a “Constant Contact” type of service. What have you intelligent folks found to work well for you? Thanks for taking a moment to respond. I’m sure that many on the list will be interested in the answers … By the way .. three cheers for Robert Shubert .. for his excellent management of our beloved Terascript product. We find the latest version fast, smooth and stable, and still the fastest development environment on the planet. Fifteen years at this and counting …. Ian _____ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body. _____ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body. _____ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body. ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [email protected] with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body.
