I am after a program or site that will allow me to send lots of emails at once, Hotmail, will only allow 300 per day, but I need to send approx 3000, any ideas anyone??

 

Thanks, Dan

You could buy your own web domain and then write a simple program that refers to a database of email addresses in order to send them out. There are probably programs available to do it too, although be careful, most hosting companies frown on bulk email, because it gets classified as spam, hence Hotmails limit. Best bet to avoid that is to only send about 300 a day, every day, for 10 days until the list is empty. Once you end up on a blacklist for spamming, it's hard to stay off it, because they keep an eye on you.

Ah i see, how do large companies do it? such as Boots, Tesco etc, do they do it as you say, 300 a day every day? That is how we have been doing it for the past 2 years or so, its just our customer base is getting larger and larger and is like you say taking up to nearly 2 weeks to let all our customers know about somthing :-(

I would just write a small script with php's mail function through sendmail

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

<?php

// Make a MySQL Connection

mysql_connect("localhost", "admin", "1admin") or die(mysql_error());

mysql_select_db("test") or die(mysql_error());

 

// Get all the email address from table

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM example")

or die(mysql_error());

 

// The email subject

$subject = "Great News";

 

// The email message

$message = "Hello Mum I just bought a 300zx shes beautiful";

 

// Loop through each email address in DB and send them an email

while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {

 

$emailaddress = $row['name'];

 

// Send

mail($emailaddress, $subject, $message);

 

}

 

?>