Hello all.
Just did a search here at the forum and found some older threads with information about newsletters and i would like to clarify a few things.
Im creating a custom newsletter script which will have the following settings
- Double opt in (option on join page and email verification)
- Unique member ID link in newsletter email so they can remove themselves easily from all newsletters or current newsletter
- Batch sending
- Time out/pause between batch submissions
- Bounce retrieval then deletion of email address from Dbase
My questions:
- Batch email:
Since there will be a unique ID for each members email i can not use the "multi-sendto or BBC" command. Each email will have to be sent in a loop as a separate email.
-- What is an acceptable number of emails to send off per-loop ?
If this is a problem, i can try and rework the script and create a general link and make the member login to remove themselves and use the BBC option or other method, but i was trying to avoid this.
- Time out/pause:
What is an acceptable pause between each batch ?
- When is a good time (time of day and time zone) to send off newsletters ?
The newsletter script is all PHP and MySQL, no other commands (shell or anything like that).
Using PHP's mail() function to send mail.
Newsletters will be sent to roughly 2,000 - 2,500 members (at most).
Newsletters will be sent once a month (or once every other month) normally, maybe twice a month in a rare occasion.
On server with cpanel53
Any help with the questions above or additional guidance/experience would be great.
Thanks
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Just did a search here at the forum and found some older threads with information about newsletters and i would like to clarify a few things.
Im creating a custom newsletter script which will have the following settings
- Double opt in (option on join page and email verification)
- Unique member ID link in newsletter email so they can remove themselves easily from all newsletters or current newsletter
- Batch sending
- Time out/pause between batch submissions
- Bounce retrieval then deletion of email address from Dbase
My questions:
- Batch email:
Since there will be a unique ID for each members email i can not use the "multi-sendto or BBC" command. Each email will have to be sent in a loop as a separate email.
-- What is an acceptable number of emails to send off per-loop ?
If this is a problem, i can try and rework the script and create a general link and make the member login to remove themselves and use the BBC option or other method, but i was trying to avoid this.
- Time out/pause:
What is an acceptable pause between each batch ?
- When is a good time (time of day and time zone) to send off newsletters ?
The newsletter script is all PHP and MySQL, no other commands (shell or anything like that).
Using PHP's mail() function to send mail.
Newsletters will be sent to roughly 2,000 - 2,500 members (at most).
Newsletters will be sent once a month (or once every other month) normally, maybe twice a month in a rare occasion.
On server with cpanel53
Any help with the questions above or additional guidance/experience would be great.
Thanks
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