[FX.php List] Approach to User initiated mass mail capability

[Alex Gates]

Hi Jonathan - 

I think the cron job is a good idea - but I'd think the most likely problem
would be with your smtp host not approving of the large numbers.
This is the problem I have - I'd like to do the same thing with a cron
job... but my host said we'd get blacklisted if we send too many.

Alex


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org [mailto:fx.php_list-
> bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Schwartz
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:33 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: [FX.php List] Approach to User initiated mass mail capability
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I looking to remove myself from the middle... between client's FMP
> data and the need send occasional mass mailings.  Up to this point, I
> have been the producing custom html emailings using SMTPIt.
> 
> I have created email campaign creation screens that allow authorized
> users to specify email subject and email content.  For the latter, I
> am using web based WYSIWYGPro that allows creation of HTML code.  I
> have  a test mode that sends test emails back to the sender. Finally,
> I allow the user to select all or a portion of the entire list.
> 
> The question is how to save, queue and send email jobs once they have
> been created.
> 
> At this point in the testing, I have simply sent the emails with a
> foreach statement that immediately sends the emails found by an
> fx.php query.  The script ties up the user's browser until the send
> is complete.
> 
> This might be fine for a handful of recipients, but not 100's to
> 1000's.
> 
> I'm thinking of using an array saved to a flat file, and perhaps a
> cron job to look for queued send jobs...although I have not tried
> this before.
> 
> Does this sound right?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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> Exit 445 Group
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