What do you use to email your users?

#1

Post by merrick33 » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 10:16 PM UTC

We have thousands of users and want to email them - preferably with some software/service that can get the email addresses out of our database, without having to manually export. A few I have seen can connect to mysql, but not postgres :(

While I could use something like mailman I am hoping some of you have found a cost effective method for emailing a large number of users and getting statistics as well.

Re: What do you use to email your users?

#2

Post by sil3ntmac » Tue, Aug 26, 2008, 12:27 AM UTC

PHPList is a good, free mailing software - its usually included in fantastico

http://www.phplist.com/

i've heard of people modifying it to use postgre, but i believe it only comes with support for mysql out of the box

Re: What do you use to email your users?

#3

Post by merrick33 » Tue, Aug 26, 2008, 3:56 AM UTC

sil3ntmac wrote: post #2

PHPList is a good, free mailing software - its usually included in fantastico http://www.phplist.com/ i've heard of people modifying it to use postgre, but i believe it only comes with support for mysql out of the box

Thank you, PHPList is kind of what we decided to use if we have to manually import.

Re: What do you use to email your users?

#4

Post by markdionne » Tue, Aug 26, 2008, 4:13 AM UTC

After you get the machinery to pump out the mail, there is the issue of getting it through spam filters. I have had numerous problems when sending emails from my own domain. It is all too easy to get on various blacklists even if you are extremely well behaved.