Recommendations? Web based bulk email program

dugawug

is there a web based bulk email application anyone knows of where multiple users can come in and send bulk (100-1000+) emails to database derived email lists? moreso, with the option of one or more admin users defining what groups of people other users can send mail to.

for example, i would be the admin and would set up another user who could log in and only send emails to people in our database from Oregon. or to any specific group of people by supplying a SQL command to retrieve certain emails.

anyone know of something like this? we're a non-profit and me being the one to send the emails for everyone else is starting to get overwhelming!

dasil003

I have written a custom mass mailer which works by saving a message and a list of recipients into a MySQL database, then you actually send the mail via the command line (to avoid 30 second web page timeout errors). At some point I will probably add AJAX functionality so that it is completely web-based, but the commandline gives you a nice running update of the progress.

Currently it can only send plaintext messages (although it does support utf-8 characters), but it uses Pears mail/mime class, so it wouldn't be too hard to add HTML support.

It's not packaged as a standalone project, but I could set it up and integrate it for a small fee.

Sxooter

I set up something like this in a weekend many years ago for an opt - in mailing list thing at a company I worked at, for things like product updates and such. It used a web interface to manipulate the data in the database, and a cron job ran every 30 minutes or so and grabbed a chunk of names and processed them. I think we did something like 100,000 emails an hour, maybe a little more.

This was back in the day of BIG servers being a Pentium II 300 with 256 megs of ram.

It's a pretty easy application to write, honestly. The hard part is you HAVE to have a way to let people opt back out, and it's got to be VERY easy to do, or they'll get quite upset at being "spammed" all the time. Also need to set up a cron job to process all the returned as undeliverable mails too.

dugawug

thanks guys...
i'm a newbie techie really....
mostly looking for a nice, pre-packaged application that would just let the different people in our group email a limited group of people in our database. and to allow me to determine what that group is! 😃

for now, i just handle all the mailings myself as not that many go through but just future thinking...

csn

I think dadamail can do these things.