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[deregular]

Have a new project that I will need a Bulk Email Service for.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Basically, client will need to be able to control from my custom CMS interface, so I suppose an API is warranted.

I would like to use it for not only newsletters but also for system notifications, daily/weekly search matches etc...

This is gonna be a high traffic real estate/rental site, that eventually will be residing on a dedi, perhaps may need
load balancing later on too.

I am guessing a set and blast service will not suffice. However Ive not had much experience with dealing with this
side of things, so I am open to suggestions.

Thanks all in advance.

[perkiset]

I have a similar situation. Many clients with bulk emailing needs - movie schedules, newsletters, press releases, deals and coupons, simple marketing pieces... you get the drift.

I wrote a webapp control center so that clients can completely help themselves. About 50% do. The other 50% we help with the blasts. I use the phpMailer class (on the board here somewhere) which does an excellent job. Given what you're looking at, I don't know if it makes financial sense to outsource it - although that's a matter of value perception on part of your client. Worst case though, you have a service and teach them how to be successful and they disintermediate ... and you go hungry, bow bow bow.

I think I even posted some screen shots of the process of an eblast a bit ago ... I'll look about and see if I can find anything - might spin your gears.

[perkiset]

Here it is ...

http://www.perkiset.org/forum/php/newsletters_and_handling_bulk_email-t2234.15.html

But I noticed that you actually commented on that thread... so I'm going to gather that architecting something for your clients is more than you want to effort ATM?

[deregular]

I remember that thread, that was a while back when I was knocking up a basic template/email blaster with scheduled iteration of sending out emails.

It works nicely. For small runs.

Was just curious about any corporate level solutions though thats all.

Something that I can take a look at so I know what I might be up for later on down the track if ever there gets to be over say 50,000 users that sort of thing.

Thanks for the reply perks and the reminder of that thread, that is still one huge beast you got yerself there mate 

[perkiset]

LOL thanks matey. It does work well.

@ Corporate: all I do for larger clients is put more machines on dispatch. So I'm doing hundreds or thousands per hour. That's where the DB queue comes in quite handy.