RE: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing

date posted 12th January 2006 09:40

I must be missing something here.

I did some mailings scripts for a client last year that filtered out bad
emails, allowed mailing lists to be uploaded & separated into different
lists etc.,

It just loops though each email address in the list & then either =
rejects
the invalid ones, or sends the email to the valid ones. Once it's =
finished,
a report is generated highlighting rejected addresses.


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 12 January 2006 10:02
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing


you're still not wasting time looking to send out a clients list of 50
emails?

Andrew


>
> BCC is not a good idea as the recipients e-mail address doesn't appear =
in
> the TO address field of the e-mail.
> Looks like spam !
>
> Unfortunatly I can't recomend a way of doing this, I have been looking =
at
> email management software for myself.
> I did look at something called 'MailList Controller', which was free =
for
> the
> basic version, but you had to buy it if you wanted a version with =
multiple
> mailing lists.
> I haven't used it yet - still trying to work out how to use it !
>
> Julie
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Cartmell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:15 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
>
>
>
>> I then grouped these into several groups - however the format of many
>> emails
>> was incorrect - so the message could not be sent until they had all =
been
>> actioned
>
> Send the e-mail to yourself and BCC: the message to all the database
> addresses (which you should do anyway, so you don't send everyone's =
e-mail
> address to everyone else. Valid ones will go, the rest will bounce =
with
> error messages. Then at least you only have to deal with the invalid =
ones.
>
> A more complex solution would be to check each address for validity, =
first
> looking at the format of the string, and then, ideally, also =
attempting to
> send to each address. There are free PHP scripts available to do this.
>
> I could put together a simple web-based solution to validate a list of
> addresses for ~=C2=A3100 if that would be of interest. Paste the list =
into a
> web form, press the go button, and get a lists of valid and invalid =
ones
> back.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Anthony
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