Sending thousands of e-mails!!!

osaddict

Right - I should first and foremostly point out - I am asking this question in my 'employment capacity' and not as an individual!

We send thousands of e-mails - on a monthly basis, occasionally more frequently to our base of subscribers - at present this is around 7 thousand e-mails- sent to customers who pay for our online databases - we send a monthly roundup newsletter etc.

At present we use an application called 'group mail 5' but its utterly sh*te - every time I use it it crashes, hangs, does not render information properly etc - it basically makes me want to destroy office furniture! - not good!

Does anyone know of decent software to achieve this task - it must have html capabilities (thats understanding html - not necessarilly composing it) and most importantly the ability to connect to a sql database to pull off the customers...

I doubt anyone will know! - but u never know!

airbornflght

you could write a php script to do that couldn't you?

Linc

I've recently signed this site up to use Campaign Monitor, which basically puts the responsibility on their server and is very robust. It's cost per e-mail, but there are bulk discounts. Personally, I think it's well worth the cost for my application. I found it via some other very reputable sites that use it.

airbornflght wrote:

you could write a php script to do that couldn't you?

You could, but when dealing with that volume it would probably be more reliable to use a commercial product, especially if you need a large feature set.

osaddict

Ill give that a look keebler.

We need to do something different, the group mail thing is seriously doing my head in!

@ airbornflght i know nothing about php, so that would be a no go for me - and as keebler says with this volume of e-mails something that handles the unsubscribes, the bounces etc all for me is very useful.