Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing

date posted 12th January 2006 12:54

> web based send methods are not relaible at all there is no guarantee any
> of the emaisl get sent.

Eh? There is no difference from sending e-mail from a computer in a
datacentre connected to the web, than from sending from a computer in the
office connected to the web. Except that the former can connect direct to
the recipient's mail server, whereas the latter often sends via several
other machines.

As for send guarantees, it is easy to check whether the recipient's server
accepts the message, and if not, what the error message was.

I created a bulk e-mail Newsletter solution at my last company using PHP
and a MySQL database. It would send up to a thousand messages without any
problems. I also wrote a e-mail address checker, that would go as far as
trying to send via the recipient's server, so would catch "mailbox full"
and "unknown user" problems even if the address looked valid. There is one
at http://www.dnsstuff.com for individual addresses.

Anthony
--
www.fonant.com - hand-crafted web sites