parasbshah

*quick summary, incase you dont wanna read* Need someone to help me set up a cron job / script to mass mail without tanking the server / killing my hosting.

Hey guys, this may be somewhat....scattered. Ok, I have a client to whom I have provided a way of putting together an e-newsletter. Now, when he does and sends it out, its supposed to send to a database of some 4000 recipients, none of whom are supposed to see each other.

Now, I tried it two ways. Im using phpmailer, so keep that in mind. But in any case, I tried to send all the people individual emails so that they wouldn't be able to see each other on the list.

That failed because of the sheer volume of recipients (I think). I get the majority of messages back, all saying that so and so didnt get the message because of an 'unrouteable mail domain' Translation - surpass is blocking me from sending out all those emails because of possible spam consequences.

So instead, I stuck all the email addresses (BCC of course) within an individual email to radically decrease the number of emails. The same result, except I received ONE email that lists ALL the addresses, then tells me they are 'unrouteable mail domain'. No joke.

So, can someone please, for the love of god, help me set it up so that this thing does a cron job for these emails? Or at least point me in the right direction? Links? Examples? Anything? I'm badly needing help here, and as much as I search, I can't find a good howto for a cron mailer.

Thanks in advance guys, you're lifesavers.

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Bigjohn

first, open a support ticket and ask support to check and make sure that your domain is permitted to 1)access phpmailer and 2) that the firewall on the server is setup correctly.

I say this because they recompiled PHP on my server last week and it broke my ability to send email through the webmail client!

the unroutable domain error does not sound like a problem with the destination addresses...

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parasbshah

My server IS allowed to access phpmailer, I've been using it for months now.

You are correct though, the unroutable domain error is due to an excessive amount of emails per time period. I'm now limiting it to 200 or so every 10 minutes.

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