Newsletter System

[gc40]

Greetings All,
I have a mailing list of about 12,000 people from my local town. I want to purchase a newsletter system that would allow me to enter these emails into this system and then send out template based html emails to all 12,000.

First I need to know what kind of newsletter system should I get. Then I need to know if it could handle sending out 12,000 emails (queuing system?) and lastly what host should I go with that could handle that massive about of emails.

Should I use php mailing function or a sendmail through my gmail account?

[ixalmida]

Really...? You would purchase a mailing system???

What you are requesting seems like a pretty simple thing to do via PHP with a typical LAMP server. I have a e-payment notification system that sends out thousands of emails weekly - it's fast and the whole thing was free.

$name = $db_row['name'];
$email = $db_row['email'];

// Build the header...
$header = "From: [e-mail]\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$subject = "News From My Domain!!!";

// Build the message...
$message = "<p>&nbsp;</p>".
  "<style type='text/css'>\n".
  "table { border-collapse: collapse; }\n".
  "td { text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border: solid 1px #000000; }</style>\n".
  "<p><strong><u>Section Header</p>\n".
  "<p>Dear $name,</p>\n".
  "<p>Info...</p>\n".
  "<p>&nbsp;</p>".
  "<p><em>Questions? Email: <a href='mailto: [e-mail]'>Me</a></em></p>";

// Send the email...
mail($email, $subject, $message, $header);

If you want a good tutorial on building a lamp server, try howtoforge.