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rohitlondhe
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Bulk mailing manager

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Hello,

We want to send around 10000 email per day per user ,

Our main requirement is :

We are developing a site where user come to the site and register then he purchases some amount of e-mails from us from which he can send an email to all his group members ..

So each user can send more than 10,000 e-mail or unlimited depending upon the user selects the e-mail category

Similar to http://www.injesus.com Please refer this site you will get the idea (Bulk e-mailing software)

We would also like to know what server configuration do you need for this , i.e a shared server or dedicated server .

How can i integrate this functionlity into our current site i.e the user need to pulled from our database and send the mails to the group members. Right now we have created the functionality of creating the groups adding the members to groups only we need to send the e-mail to those group members .

Please let us know if anybody knows any software or 3rd party tool.
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Re: Bulk mailing manager

Post by abhinavzone »

well you can manage it through PHP only if you are using IIS. Because I tried it phpmailer class the main problem was it does not buffer messages so my script hangs out. But simple mail function through IIS Worked well.

One more thing If you send 1000 mails on yahoo ids (different ids) then yahoo bloks your server.. so take care of that

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;)
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Re: Bulk mailing manager

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Sounds like spamming and illegal activity to me. Mods?
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Re: Bulk mailing manager

Post by Kieran Huggins »

Seems like an opt-in list to me (at least the "example site" does)... so:

You could write your own with SwiftMailer and some simple SQL.

I'd definitely recommend using a dedicated machine (i.e. NOT shared hosting), and I've had great experiences with Slicehost.

Keep in mind that your server will be blacklisted if you're sending unsolicited and/or unwanted mail to people. Use your powers wisely.

Please don't spam. We'll know if you do, and sign you up to actual junk mail lists. You may already have won :twisted:
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Re: Bulk mailing manager

Post by rohitlondhe »

Thanks for sending us reply.

We are going for the dedicated server of Linux.

Our requirement is as following,

A user will register with our site. User can create multiple groups, registering and creating group is free. There will be subscribers to these groups; a newsletter send to the group will go to only subscriber of that group. To send this newsletter mails user will purchase some amount of mails from our site. For example user purchase 10000 mails from site and there are 3 groups owned by the user. Then user can use these mails for any of the group he owns. Suppose user send to first and third group of his which have 2000 subscribers in each. So there user will be remaining with 6000 mails in his account.

Please let us know if you have any more questions, so that we can explain our requirements.
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ok - good luck!
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Re: Bulk mailing manager

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rohitlondhe wrote: We are developing a site where user come to the site and register then he purchases some amount of e-mails from us from which he can send an email to all his group members ..
I might have misunderstood. Talking about "purchasing an amount of emails" made me think it was about email addresses.
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