Re: FN-FORUM: Advice required - html/email mailout marketing methods

date posted 31st January 2007 12:20

I did this once before, by accessing the contact list in a database in a
php script. In a for loop, I just added a sleep statement after every 10
or so emails. Then ran the script from cron. Obviously it takes a while
to run if you have many contacts, but you can always make the sleep and
loop size configurable and play.

A simple solution I know, but it worked. I didn't get any problems with
blacklisting or anything.

I guess asking your hosting company for advice can't hurt; they maybe able
to suggest a reasonable number of emails to send or maybe let you know of
any limits they have in place.

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>
> Hello
>
>
> My main client asked me a long time ago to setup a sustem of sending out
> large numbers of emails to her contacts database so that she could send
> samples of her photographs to prospective clients
>
> Her database has maybe 4000 contacts - not all of which have an email
> address or a valid email address - I tried several ways of doing this -
> all
> of which have problems attached to it - I eventually decided on a plugin
> for
> FileMakerPro, where I upload a page to the internet so I can copy the code
> into the appropriate window in FMP and it would mail out this to each
> contact individually (unlike outlook which just cc's everyone in your
> group
> which creates problems when it encounters invalid addresses)
>
> This method, albeit scrappy, works, but the way that (I assume) her ISP
> SMTP
> host works it will allow maybe 100 to go out and then start blocking them
> -
> so after you do a mailout - you have to search for the ones that did not
> work and resend for those - this was not a prob for me as I used to live
> 10
> mins down the road - howecer she has moved and wants to do it herself -
> she
> will not be able to do it herself without phoning me every half hour
>
> So - I suppose this is a long way of asking - does anyone know an
> alternate
> and easier way of doing html mailouts, or mailouts with attachments
>
> If anyone can suggest a reasoably priced method of doing this I will
> forward
> it on
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> John Deaville
>
>
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