emailing newsletter

[aqi]

hi

is there any problems with me sending out 540 newsletters in batches of 20?
not sure what the daily cap is

thanks

aqi

[KyleC]

make sure its double opt-in

configure it to send from 3am-6 am CST and make it pause between batches it should be ok

[aqi]

cheers kylec

they receive service update emails through their own settings and agreed to receive emails from myself in the signup contract.

cst- central standard time? i'm in europe sorry

[-Oz-]

yes, cst is central standard time or -6 GMT

[ergo]

i would like to email a newsletter to my 2300 forum users , i hve software that does in in 100 mail batches will this be a problem ?

[AndrewT]

Possibly ergo. Your best bet would be to have it send 10 e-mails, pause for 10 seconds, send 10 more, etc.

[ergo]

hmmm goop option but hard to be done from php level, i could think about some solution incorporating phpmailer class, sql fetching and sleep(), but hard to tell if it would work ,besides i dont have an option to test in in artificial environment, ill hold for now with newsletter.

[AndrewT]

The problem that I'm getting at with that suggestion is that even 100 e-mails sent instantaneously will cause a bit of increased load on the server. Now if you do this 23 times for a total of 2300, this is going to be detrimental to the server.

[ergo]

done it at my previous host ;-) increased load to 13 for a moment :]maybe ill write some custom system for emails and post it here after some testing..