Members Terry Allan Hall Posted August 30, 2005 Members Share Posted August 30, 2005 Basically, the lady who maintains my (and a few other acts) email/snailmail lists has run across a problem...the ISP she uses only allows her to send out X amount (I think 50) of any given message every 24 hours (an anti-spam measure, I presume), so she has to take 4 days just to mail out my (and a few other acts) "local" emailings (I don't send out emails of my local gigs to folks in other states or if they live over 100 miles from the Metromess, unless they specifically request I do so, obviously.) Anyway, those of you with extensive email lists, how do you handle your emailings all at once? Many, many thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zookie Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 ***Scratching head*** Maybe call the ISP's customer support line to confirm whatever limit they have and see if they can set you up with some kind of account for legitimate business mailings. I probably have more than 50 addresses on my email list and haven't run into a problem like this, so maybe another option is to switch ISPs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members worthyjoe Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Does she "blind CC" the people on the list or just send it out as a regular mass email? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members worthyjoe Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 I send mine through AOL and had trouble for our gig email this week. I shaved a couple names off the list and it worked. I will need to investigate but I THINK I will be able to just split up the list and do 2 emails. I'll try it next week. As for blind CCing, forgive me if I'm stating the obvious but I strongly suggest that method for anyone who isn't already doing it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fastplant Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Blind CC won't work for that. I ran into a similar problem a while back. I'd suggest either sending them out in intervals, or sending them out through separate servers (ie: AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc). LIke 100 from one, then switch to the next and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 I programmed a feature into our web site that allows us to maintain our mailing list from there and send out our email announcements from the web server itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted August 31, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Originally posted by Lee Flier I programmed a feature into our web site that allows us to maintain our mailing list from there and send out our email announcements from the web server itself. Could you detail how you're doing that? Thanks...and to everyone else for their ideas, as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 Well I do that sort of thing for a living so... I have a MySQL database on our web site and wrote a PHP script for people to be able to sign up for the mailing list, which then gets stored in the database and another PHP script actually sends the emails out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted September 2, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 Originally posted by Lee Flier Well I do that sort of thing for a living so... I have a MySQL database on our web site and wrote a PHP script for people to be able to sign up for the mailing list, which then gets stored in the database and another PHP script actually sends the emails out. OK, will pass that on! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 Let me know if you need any help with it Terry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted September 4, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 4, 2005 Originally posted by Lee Flier Let me know if you need any help with it Terry! Thanks, Miss Lee....very kind of you to offer, and if we don't figure it out, I'll probably take you up on your generosity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LiveMusic Posted September 7, 2005 Members Share Posted September 7, 2005 Terry, there are many email scripts. Your webmaster should be able to come up with something. Google for "bulk email script" or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted September 7, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 7, 2005 Originally posted by LiveMusic Terry, there are many email scripts. Your webmaster should be able to come up with something. Google for "bulk email script" or something like that. OK, will look into this! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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