Re: opt-in mail list best practice

on 3/16/05 12:46 PM, Todd Trent at todd@hogfishdesign.com wrote: > - This could be hosted on shared hosting server. > - Opt-in list could be less than 100 or in the 1000¹s. > - May need a way to track sending success. Check this out: <http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/> I use it to create HTML emails, send them to 1000's of people. I think I did a test to 30K or so, it handled it fine using mail locally. As for tracking, what we do is embed a image bug in the html and track when that loads, it is getting less reliable in todays anti spam world, but in my case these are paying subscribers so they generally want to get these emails. To track your users, at least the bounces we set the bounce address (return-path) to mysql_user_id@domain.com and POP check domain.com every few seconds. We then scan for the bounce address and mark that user as bouncing x times, if they go over y we cancel the account. Many will want you to use mailman and such, a mailing list manager, but if you want to do custom mailings to each person, to integrate all this is just not gonna be easy. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A.