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How do I send 10k emails?

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:37 am
by intellivision
I've got 10k email addresses to send to. I'm going to do a quarterly newsletter with 3 or 4 teasers to website content (automotive site).
  • I could use phpBB to send out the emails (it has an "email all members" function)
  • I've got a Plesk virtual server, and in it I found Server > Mass e-mail messages > Send Mass E-Mail Message
  • ConstantContact email service?
  • send from Mail.app in lots of 100, or whatever the max is, BCC'ing addresses
I'm new at email blasts. Your thoughts appreciated.

Re: How do I send 10k emails?

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:58 am
by matthijs
I would use some existing mail service. Like campaignmonitor. It costs very little and in return you get a lot of features, an easy way to manage your campaigns and subscribers, good statistics, reliable sending, etc etc

Re: How do I send 10k emails?

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:18 pm
by s.dot
I wouldn't use PHPBB to do it.
I've never tried plesk.

Email services like aweber are good to go with.

Personally I email 3k members virtually every 2-3 days. I've done 10k+ mailings before too. I've always used a pure php solution (sometimes with a cron job).

Really it is up to you.

Re: How do I send 10k emails?

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:21 pm
by JayBird
i use myemma

http://www.myemma.com

great service

Re: How do I send 10k emails?

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:43 am
by malcolmboston
i sent 2k emails via swiftmailer yesterday all at once and not a problem. :mrgreen:

Re: How do I send 10k emails?

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:34 am
by DaveTheAve
lol, I was gonna mention SwiftMailer and make reference to the Flood plugin if he has issues with mass-sending.

Re: How do I send 10k emails?

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:47 pm
by intellivision
Thanks for your input, guys. I'm going to review the suggestions and choose one in the next couple of days.

With somewhat good timing, this came to my attention today http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/proof_y ... ients.html

It's a rundown of Campaign Monitor vs. Litmus for proofing emails.

Re: How do I send 10k emails?

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:13 pm
by Chalks
I was going to suggest you hit "send" 10,000 times. :mrgreen: