<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Brandon Colbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colbert.brandon@gmail.com">colbert.brandon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a client using Pommo. They send out to a list of 120,000 twice a week, and it seems to work fine. The only problem is bounce methods. You have to script your own bounce method. Other than that it works great.<br><br>
</blockquote></div><br>While this sounds easy enough, if you don't want to manage your own server then go with a third party like constant contact - regardless of their flaws. You'll run into delivery headaches that aren't worth the effort for a mere 1000 recipients.<br>
<br>We do a monthly mailing to over 300,000 recipients using a custom mailer. Remember, you have to manage the contact list, have an interface to create the document, and send the mailing to a mail server - of which Postfix works great, better than Qmail in my experience, but that's just me. Oh, and don't think that you'll be able to get even a third of the mailing successfully delivered using mail(). Too many email servers now do call-backs to the originating server, plus a miriad of other anti-spam checks which will require a full set of headers not provided by mail(). You'll need a fully configured MTA for this to work right.<br>
<br>Then you'll have to provide a method for auto-unsubscribing the bounce backs, or providers like Hotmail or AOL will block you. You also need to provide a one-click method for recipients to unsubscribe to the mailings.<br>
<br>While I understand 1000 is a far cry from 300,000, it's still a pain either way. While not technically impossible, not worth the effort IMHO.<br><br>My 2 cents.<br>-Ken<br>