Re: Re: Thoughts Please About Design Strategy for Club Mailing List

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Curtis Maurand <curtis@maurand.com> wrote: > You need a better shared hoster. Siteground comes to mind (disclaimer, I > do not work for them. I host websites and have mailman available to my > users.). Siteground does limit to 200 recipients at a time, but since your > list is 40. > > You could also lease a VPS and run mailman or phplist. That would also > get you cron and sendmail. > > Just a couple of thoughts. > > Cheers, > Curtis > > On 3/30/2016 12:09 AM, B. Aerts wrote: > >> On 30/03/16 00:48, Stephen wrote: >> >>> >>> I am building a LAMP site on a shared server, Hostpapa, and I want to be >>> able to send emails to a mailing list. I have build sites before, but a >>> mailing list is new to me. >>> >>> Sendmail and cron are not available in this environment. >>> >>> I will have a table for member data, including their email address. >>> >>> I currently have 40 members, and expect to grow to no more than 200. >>> >>> Members will join through a web form, and I want to update the table >>> with a “pending” status. >>> >>> Using data in the table, I want to send emails to each member. I am >>> wondering about load. >>> >>> Will the PHP mail() function be OK? Do I have to be concerned about >>> timeouts? >>> >>> I would like to send a discrete email to each member. Or is just a big >>> BCC going to work? >>> >>> Anything else I should think about? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> >> Hi Steven, >> >> be aware some ISP's limit the numbers of mails sent per hour, to avoid >> mailbots sending spam from their domain. >> Better check in advance with your ISP what the limits are ( max. >> recipients per mail, max. # of mails per hour ) >> >> Other than that, I don't think 200 members is that big to handle. >> >> Regards, >> >> Bert >> >> > -- > Curtis Maurand > curtis@maurand.com <mailto:curtis@maurand.com> > 207-252-7748 Also checkout services like mandrillapp.com || http://sendgrid.com/ || https://aws.amazon.com/ses/. They aren't cheap but your emails won't end up in spam and you have good analytics.