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

[Alex Gates]

Anyone have a recommendation for an SMTP host that would allow three, four,
or even five thousand emails to be sent per day?
Of course, I would want to send them in chunks with time between... 
Or - if not, have any of you used Constant Contact or anything similar that
you liked enough to recommend?

Alex


> 
> alex. it sounds like it's time to get a new host.
> 
> cablevision (optimum online) did that to us (cap of 50 names per email
> and i think 200 total per hour) and we went for verizon FIOS service.
> there are no restrictions we've seen with them.
> 
> dan
> 
> 
> Alex Gates had written:
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jonathan Schwartz
> >> Exit 445 Group
> >> jonathan at exit445.com
> >> http://www.exit445.com
> >> 415-381-1852
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