Email Sending Programs

[Gadianton]

I'm curious what email systems people use out there to handle the actual sending of the emails. Writing an email system to manage the email lists is simple enough, and I've already done that, but handling the actual sending out seems to be a tricky issue, because TCH only allows X number every 5 minutes, so not sure how you solve something like that with PHP.

 

Anyone have any ideas in this area?

[TCH-Bruce]

You might want to give Dada Mail (http://mojo.skazat.com/) a look.

 

Moving for organization.

[vikkic]

I just spent days researching this! I have about a 2000 person newsletter that has dropped from almost 4000 members because of email sending problems.

 

Dada mail will work at about 500 people if you enable batch sending but over that amount there isn't any definitive answer.

You can send 50 messages every 300 seconds through your regular email program, breaking your mailing list down into 50 people sections. Tedious but it works. (OE and BCC).

You can conversely divide your mailing list into 400 - 500 person segments and send it through dada mail using the batch sending mode too.

Lastly you can get a dedicated server. (WAY beyond my ability!!!)

 

Finally after looking at all the options I'm going with outsourcing the newsletter - there are a lot of advantages to it (get a company that allows easy import and export of your mailing list, works with the large ISP's as not providing spam, and has lots of statistics for you, including right down to how many people open your newsletter!).

 

This has been a really fruitful discussion for me and I appreciate having a forum that allows this type of interaction with other sellers.

 

VikkiC