Mass Mailing Solution?

[familyon]

Hi,

I am relatively unfamiliar with cron jobs and php, but in seaching for a workaround for the limitations of 100 emails/hour I found one reference. (I have a newsletter in phplist and send out a newsletter each month to about 1,000 users).

It was suggested (Hostican Emails) that I could use a cron job to execute a php script to run each hour and send off 100 emails. First, is this feasible? Secondly, would this be an easy script to write and/or does anyone know of an existing script close to what I want to do?

Thanks - John Vogel

[itwasntme]

You really don't need to use a cron job. PHPList is already set up to handle the "send speed" of mailings to keep within HIC's limits.

Take a look at this article in the PHPList documentation.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by itwasntme

You really don't need to use a cron job. PHPList is already set up to handle the "send speed" of mailings to keep within HIC's limits.

Take a look at this article in the PHPList documentation.

As an alternative, consider poMMo, which you can find more about at Main Page - . .. poMMo .. ..

Yes, it's not fully developed yet, but it's easy to use and has a nice standard template for mailings and signups. I've tested it, and with the current release, you can deploy it in a real situation and get good results.

My problem with PHPList is that the documentation is written by people who don't know how to write, and it has the user interface from hell. And I'm understating that.

[jcarvin]

I'm new here too. This is the first I've heard of limits of 100 emails/hour. It's understandable, but … the idea of some of my sites is to grow big and scalable. 101+ automated registrations, followed by reminder emails for various pertinent things in an automation process (CRON job?) is highly desired.

So what am I up against?

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by jcarvin

I'm new here too. This is the first I've heard of limits of 100 emails/hour. It's understandable, but … the idea of some of my sites is to grow big and scalable. 101+ automated registrations, followed by reminder emails for various pertinent things in an automation process (CRON job?) is highly desired.

So what am I up against?

Yes, there must be a CRON but I'm not aware of it? What you could do I mean if you need to send like 150+ for example, you may consider upgrading to a VPS-Rage hosting account where you wont have limits like this placed on your hosting account. Shared has to be limited, due to the amount of abuse that happens otherwise... kinda learned this from exp.

[jcarvin]

Is that the one that's $240/month?

OK. Let me grow first so I can do this in profit.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by jcarvin

Is that the one that's $240/month?

OK. Let me grow first so I can do this in profit.

No, VPS-Rage starts at $44.95 per month, which is a bargain for what you get.