PHP bulk emailer
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- moth0
Andrew_D - it does have an API if you want to get really picky.
We just feed it a master list - and CP maintains the black-list (the opt-outs). It just filters them out of the master which means you don;t have worry about that part...
- section_0140
Good advice on the Mail Chimp/ Campaign Monitor and I can definitely see the advantage. However, the client doesn't want to shell out $200 for each email being sent out. I don't blame them frankly. I've spent the morning configuring phplist and I think it will work just fine for our needs if anyone else is interested.
- sublocked0
+100 for campaignmonitor.
good luck with your own hand-rolled solution. i've had clients go that route and migrate to campaignmonitor later just to save the headache of getting blacklisted, running the script, whatever.
plus the stats on campaignmonitor kick ass.
- acescence0
i worked for a company that got their domain blacklisted for pushing too many emails to one domain at a time. it took them days to realize a lot of their outgoing email was getting sent down a black hole and never reaching its destination. took them a couple months to get it all scrubbed. just be very careful!
- vaxorcist0
I'd use CampaignMonitor or MailChimp, or similar service.
Using a 3rd party means your list has to be clean, as you're renting the good reputation of the 3rd party sender, so if larger than X% of your list bounces, they really won't be happy with you...
A good 3rd party has relationships with email providers for whitelisting, so you get fewer bounces than if you send from your own server.
Doing it yourself can be quite a hassle...the issues are more reputation oriented than software related, i.e. your ISP doesn't want anything that will get them in trouble....
- Andrew_D0
Nice, I've gotta look into this as well. Be nice if anyone had experience with these.
- section_0140
oh, cool I'll look into that.
Basically, I'll code the newsletter, and like to enter it into a form and send. I don't need a program that will insert the pictures for me and bold text and all that jazz.
- Shaney0
agree with moth, tried a few bulk emailers a couple of years ago, all were a pain (that I tried anyway). Used a couple of the online 3rd party apps, went with campaign monitor last month everything was a breeze, made a crap job easy with 25000 mailouts.
- section_0140
eh, that's pretty pricy. I'd rather buy a program for a few hundred dollars than pay per newsletter. I'm not spamming people. It's a newsletter that people sign up for.
- moth0
Trouble with your own also, is that hosts have server level limits that you just don't know about. Most web hosts will only let you send the same email (or any email) about 100 times in a 15 minute period.