Re: [PHP] opt-in mail list best practice

2005-03-21 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, March 17, 2005 2:37 am, Scott Haneda said: > on 3/16/05 12:46 PM, Todd Trent at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> - This could be hosted on shared hosting server. >> - Opt-in list could be less than 100 or in the 1000¹s. >> - May need a way to track sending success. > > Check this out: >

Re: [PHP] opt-in mail list best practice

2005-03-17 Thread Jason Barnett
Scott Haneda wrote: ... > I use it to create HTML emails, send them to 1000's of people. I think I > did a test to 30K or so, it handled it fine using mail locally. HTML emails [shudder] > As for tracking, what we do is embed a image bug in the html and track when > that loads, it is getting les

Re: [PHP] opt-in mail list best practice

2005-03-17 Thread Scott Haneda
on 3/16/05 12:46 PM, Todd Trent at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - This could be hosted on shared hosting server. > - Opt-in list could be less than 100 or in the 1000¹s. > - May need a way to track sending success. Check this out: I use it to create HTML emails,

Re: [PHP] opt-in mail list best practice

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Schmidt
Todd Trent wrote: > This works fine for a few test emails. What I would like to know is what is > considered best practice considering the following things: > > - This could be hosted on shared hosting server. > - Opt-in list could be less than 100 or in the 1000’s. > - May need a way to track sen

RE: [PHP] opt-in mail list best practice

2005-03-16 Thread Chris W. Parker
Todd Trent on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:46 PM said: > - Opt-in list could be less than 100 or in the 1000's. [snip] > I've been googling all day and have found mailing classes, libraries, > and scripts none of which seem to be documented very well or let me > bu

[PHP] opt-in mail list best practice

2005-03-16 Thread Todd Trent
I’ve created an email script that retrieves email addresses from a mysql database. Currently I’m grabbing the email addresses and putting them in the mail header’s Cc: or Bcc: section in comma delimited format. I do have sendmail on the current server so I’m using the mail function to send the emai