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It's nowhere near the same scale, but when I wanted something to email all the people registered for the MathsJam (this weekend - geting nervous and excited!) I
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
It's nowhere near the same scale, but when I wanted something to email all the people registered for the MathsJam (this weekend - geting nervous and excited!) I just wrote a script that connects to my SMTP server and sends an email. That way each email is personally addressed and only has the single recipient, making it less likely to be considered spam. The text is personalised as well, populating various fields from the data I have on that individual. Because the email goes only to them, that's OK. I don't believe that would be possible with a bulk emailer.
I'm only emailing about 200 people and it takes about 2.5 seconds for each email. To hit 65000 people would take about 2 days, but at least each person would get an email sent specifically to them.
- d_r 16y agoBut how do you know that the individual recipient's mail client/service doesn't categorize your message as spam? If you're baking your own e-mail solution, you need a 'good' IP address, correct SPF/reverse DNS/headers/obscure SendMail tweaks, and much other magic.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoI'm using the SMTP gateway that my well-known ISP provides, just as if I'm sending each one, lovingly hand crafted, via a standard email client from a regular desktop. So here's the question: how do my regular emails not get classed as spam?
- rlpb 16y agoIt's fine unless you have many recipients on one particular domain (or one particular MX). Then it'll notice. For example, I recently did an email shot for someone. Of 3936 registered users, 924 are @hotmail.com and 357 are @gmail.com. (these were sent from a server which has built up its reputation over time; I assume there would be a problem with an order of magnitude more emails arriving from a new location)