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Re: Sending an email to over 100k email addresses?
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 7:07 pm
by RobertGonzalez
phice wrote:How would I go about sending out an email to over 100,000 email addresses? I've heard that mail() isn't too reliable and I should use SMTP or the like?
What would be the best way to go about this?
If this is a hosted server, the first thing I would do is check with the host to make sure they don't limit your outbound emails through your web server. I know a lot of hosts set a default limit of mails on their accounts. I ran into this once when trying to develop a small mailer. The host only allowed 100 outbound emails from the web server in any 24 hour period of time. It would seem a waste of time to develop a sweet application to handle mailers only to be thwarted by a restrictive host.
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 9:43 pm
by phice
ole wrote:Can I see your site?
It's a clients work,
NDA.

Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:44 am
by Ollie Saunders
sure it is.
OK seriously, don't worry
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 2:05 pm
by phice
ole wrote:sure it is.

Let's try to remain a little professional and remain on topic please.

Re: Sending an email to over 100k email addresses?
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 2:08 pm
by phice
Everah wrote:phice wrote:How would I go about sending out an email to over 100,000 email addresses? I've heard that mail() isn't too reliable and I should use SMTP or the like?
What would be the best way to go about this?
If this is a hosted server, the first thing I would do is check with the host to make sure they don't limit your outbound emails through your web server. I know a lot of hosts set a default limit of mails on their accounts. I ran into this once when trying to develop a small mailer. The host only allowed 100 outbound emails from the web server in any 24 hour period of time. It would seem a waste of time to develop a sweet application to handle mailers only to be thwarted by a restrictive host.
Nope, it's dedicated.