Re: Efficient mass mailings

Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I a currently re-writing a web app from ASP to PHP and have come to > the part where the app sends mass mailings to their customer base. > This has always been problematic for them with the existing setup and > I am looking for the best approach. While I've setup mailings with > PHP, never such mass mailings. They will be using a web form to send > sometimes 2-5MB attachments to thousands of customers to advertise new > products with PDF's, etc. Using their Windows IIS SMTP virtual server > smarthost function, I send their mail off-site to our postfix mail > gateway, but it still bogs down and I'm sure a remote server is not > the answer, but still better than the errors they receive trying to > use localhost and IIS. Once the re-write, the app will be on to a > Linux box where I can do some tweaking to these and hope localhost > will work better for these mailings. > > Can someone give some pointers at how I may want to approach such mass > mailings? Thanks in advance! More bandwidth. Your 2-5Mb attachment is killing delivery performance. /Per Jessen, Zürich