Well first of all, if this topic needs a change of subforum, do it. I didnt know where to post it.
I need to send an email to 900 or 1000 user adresses each week, but i am scared of servers to catch it as SPAM.
Once i send a massive email to all my forum users and i saw that it sent them in small groups and maybe with a period of separate time between them.
I have thought that i could do the same sending emails with a while (one by one) in groups of 20 or 20 and then using the function SLEEP of php to wait 10 or 20 seconds between groups of emails, but i still didnt know if it would be consider as SPAM for hotmail, gmail, yahoo... (or even for my host server)
What do you think must i do?
Have you done it any time?
Lots of thanks and sorry for my spanish ;)
Install php list. It sends them out so many at a time per hour.
SMF 2.x has a mail queue which is able to send in small chunks.
Although it still might get detected as spam by sheer volume reaching gmail/hotmail servers.
Quote from: verydumb on June 11, 2008, 07:36:24 PM
Install php list. It sends them out so many at a time per hour.
This?
http://www.phplist.com
It has a demo here:
http://demo.phplist.com/lists/admin/?page=send&id=18
But... what with it servers wouldnt recive it as SPAM?
What method does it use?
It sends them out so many a min, that u tell it how many a min.
So lets say u have a 500 mail limit per hour on ur server, you can tell it to send 1 a min for so many mins and it will keep sending till its done.
Are u worried about ur host thinking its spam? Cause if u are they can see your a forum and most hosts are hip to forums.
Is this issue resolved? There's no simple answer to this. SMF 2.0 does have a better way of handling the amount of emails it sends out though as mentioned by karlbenson.