Sending bulk email

robcubb · January 15th, 2010, 11:13 AM

Hi,

I'm a reseller here.

I would like to (as a one-off) send an HTML email out to everyone who's ever sent me an email (1000's). I can do the design and host the images on my server. But I don't have any experience of handling the mailing list, ensuring the mails won't be labeled as spam and organizing the Unsubscribes, etc.

Also I would like to send an email to everyone who has signed up for the email updates from my blog (only c. 100). I could do this from my own email client from my home desktop but, again, maybe it would be better to use some sort of emailing service here.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

**fury** · January 15th, 2010, 7:13 PM

I believe most mailing list software has a throttle setting built in that will prevent your emails from overloading the server, which limits you to 300 (or 350, I forget) emails per domian, per hour.

As far as preventing them as being seen as spam, I don't have a lot of experience with that, but I do recall a single line of PHP that you can add to form mail scripts to help prevent it, something to do with the date. Someone with more experience will need to input on the spam end of it.

**Bigjohn** · January 16th, 2010, 7:21 PM

Worldwide Web Sites - Premiere Global Services
see the SEND product.

You can only send to 'opt in'
And I would not use your SERVER, since you could end up getting the entire server marked as a spammer...

robcubb · January 17th, 2010, 12:41 PM

Thank you fury and Bigjohn. I was thinking of using Aweber.

**Alex** · January 22nd, 2010, 2:12 PM

to add on to what Fury said, the limit is in fact 350 per hour per domain.

robcubb · January 23rd, 2010, 10:22 AM

Thanks, Alex

jayv007 · February 6th, 2010, 7:16 AM

Just out of curiosity, what did you end up going with?

robcubb · February 9th, 2010, 5:47 AM

Hi jayv007, I've been really busy with work so I've put this project on the back burner. I'll probably sign up to a service like Aweber because a lot of people use them and they're quite cheap.

January 15th, 2010, 11:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
robcubb Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Aug 2005 Lives in London Hosted on Pass66 105 posts Gave thanks: 18 Thanked 3 times	Sending bulk email Hi, I'm a reseller here. I would like to (as a one-off) send an HTML email out to everyone who's ever sent me an email (1000's). I can do the design and host the images on my server. But I don't have any experience of handling the mailing list, ensuring the mails won't be labeled as spam and organizing the Unsubscribes, etc. Also I would like to send an email to everyone who has signed up for the email updates from my blog (only c. 100). I could do this from my own email client from my home desktop but, again, maybe it would be better to use some sort of emailing service here. Does anyone have any suggestions? __________________ Rob Reseller – Pass 66 Freelance Graphic Design Music news views and opinions Music forum and discussion

January 15th, 2010, 7:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
fury Surpass Fan Super #1 Joined in Dec 2005 Lives in MN > USA Hosted on pass84 2,140 posts Gave thanks: 89 Thanked 112 times	I believe most mailing list software has a throttle setting built in that will prevent your emails from overloading the server, which limits you to 300 (or 350, I forget) emails per domian, per hour. As far as preventing them as being seen as spam, I don't have a lot of experience with that, but I do recall a single line of PHP that you can add to form mail scripts to help prevent it, something to do with the date. Someone with more experience will need to input on the spam end of it. __________________ fury™ - not helping the situation since 1987 robmonroe.net \| Twitter \| Foursquare

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January 17th, 2010, 12:41 PM	#4 (permalink)
robcubb Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Aug 2005 Lives in London Hosted on Pass66 105 posts Gave thanks: 18 Thanked 3 times	Thank you fury and Bigjohn. I was thinking of using Aweber. __________________ Rob Reseller – Pass 66 Freelance Graphic Design Music news views and opinions Music forum and discussion

January 22nd, 2010, 2:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
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January 23rd, 2010, 10:22 AM	#6 (permalink)
robcubb Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Aug 2005 Lives in London Hosted on Pass66 105 posts Gave thanks: 18 Thanked 3 times	Thanks, Alex __________________ Rob Reseller – Pass 66 Freelance Graphic Design Music news views and opinions Music forum and discussion

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February 9th, 2010, 5:47 AM	#8 (permalink)
robcubb Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Aug 2005 Lives in London Hosted on Pass66 105 posts Gave thanks: 18 Thanked 3 times	Hi jayv007, I've been really busy with work so I've put this project on the back burner. I'll probably sign up to a service like Aweber because a lot of people use them and they're quite cheap. __________________ Rob Reseller – Pass 66 Freelance Graphic Design Music news views and opinions Music forum and discussion

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