how do I send out 6,000 e-mails?

Question

Iam needing to send out a personal form e-mail advertising a new service our compony is providing to its existing contact data base. I have access to our componies servers, and have a working knowslege of HTML, PHP, XML, Flash

Answer 1

There are several PHP mailing classes optimized to send messages to many recipients. Personally, I use the MIME message class available in the PHPClasses site ( http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage ) to send text and HTML newsletters to voluntary site subscribers.

You need to send separate messages to each recipient. Do not put all recipients in Bcc, or else Hotmail and other mail systems will consider your newsletters spam.

The class above can be used to send e-mail standards conforming messages to as many recipients as you want, but I advise you to avoid personalizing messages if possible.

This means that you should send the same message body to every user. This way you can use the cache_body variable of the class to hint it to not waste time rebuilding the message body for each user. This makes the whole message queuing process much faster.

If you really need to personalize the messages for each recipient, the class also provides a function named SetBulkMail() that can be used to hint the class to optimize the way it works when sending messages to many recipients.

You can send HTML messages, but be careful. Some systems like Hotmail will consider the message as spam if the message body is HTML only. This means that the message body must include the HTML and the plain text versions of the message. This is achieved composing a multipart/alternative message.

The class above simplifies this kind of special message composition. It also provides support for embedding images in the message to show within the HTML version if you want that too.

If you find this too complicated, don't worry, the class comes with plenty of documentation and examples to demonstrate how to send messages with all these concerns.

Answer 2

It might help to provide a little more information. An example would be what platform and interface you are using. If this is an existing company, with a database of email addresses, you should also have access to some sort of mailing service.

If there is not a mailing service in place, you should be able to extract the names and email addresses from the database. Depending on the database type, you may be able to write a php script to assist in the extraction. You will have to have access to the database to do this though. If you do have access, but are unsure how to export them, you can either research it, or hire another programmer to handle this for you. It may be more efficient to allow someone else to do it, rather than taking the time to learn how.

Once the names have been extracted, you may want to import the names into a some sort of mailing list manager to mail to them now and in the future. There are many out there ranging from free to slightly expensive.

*Disclaimer* If you extract the names from the database and you are sending to email addresses outside of the company, make sure you run an optin series and comply with all can-spam laws. A quick search will bring you up to dates on what is required in the email.

Answer 3

You need to be very very sure that all these 6000 people have agreed to receiving such mails from you, elsewise you are treading on dangerous territory.
Now check if there is actually a database of these folks (I dont mean a word document listing them.. but something like a proper database, or atleast an excel sheet)
Given then, write some queries that extract the emails. Use some nifty sendmail script to do that.
Also try not to overload the mail with all data you want to convey. Write a mail that outlines the stuff and then gives a link to the site where more data should be available. That is where you HTML, PHP, Flash etc may come handy.

Answer 4

No Problimo!

Thats very simple, lot of Bulk Mailer software are available, you can download those from www.downloads.com, search there with with keywords "Bulk Mailer", "News Letter" etc.
You can attach those 6000 customer database in any format like Mdb, Excel or even Notepad.
Even you configure your newsletters to send just One email to 6000 customers Individually i.e you will send once but each customer will be receive as you only wrote to him.

Well, I believe those Bulk Mailers are designed in VB backed by SQL/Access developer and if you have some knowledge you can even design your own (check VB/Macro development in Microsoft Access)

If you still get the problem, contact me!

Qaisar Bhatti
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Answer 5

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Answer 6

it sounds lyk either u or it friend has a malvirus! Those suckers r super hard to get rid of but if you go 2 YouTube and look up how to romove malware virus it'll teach u.

Answer 7

Just type the same email 6,000 times.

Answer 8

search on the internet there are companies that will do this for a fee.. There are mailer programs you can use to do it from your computer, but your ISP will shut you down. and if you do it from your webhost.. they will shut you down.. your only bet is to find a 3rd party to do it for you.

Answer 9

take the company database and put them into ur favs. Then select all of them.

Answer 10

one by one