Re: Sending bulk emails

2014-08-25 Thread Jonathan Cooper
ssion. ;-) Regards, Jonathan Cooper (02) 4365 4809 • 0403 358 941 www.doctordada.com On 26/08/2014, at 3:19 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Hi list, > Here's my problem : one of our apps is used by different > clients of ours for various tasks, one of them bei

Re: Sending bulk emails

2014-08-25 Thread jbv
Simon Thanks for the reply. It confirms what I thought : using a 3rd party service might be the solution. Nevertheless I have checked a few things : the ip and domain names aren't blacklisted and the ip has a valid Reverse DNS lookup. The strange thing is that when my client sends the same email

Re: Sending bulk emails

2014-08-25 Thread Simon Smith
Its best not to send bulk email via a web server. Mail servers will start marking emails as spam as soon as the see a number of incoming messages from a single location. Depending on what you are sending there are a number of newsletter or transactional mail providers - mail chimp / mandrill.com, c

Re: Sending bulk emails

2014-08-25 Thread Stephen MacLean
If the server doesn’t have a valid Reverse DNS lookup for it, then a lot of email systems will reject it. For most, but not all, it doesn’t matter that the server name = the domain name you are sending from, as long as the RDNS is valid. RDNS is usually assigned by your ISP, since they typicall

Re: Sending bulk emails

2014-08-25 Thread jbv
Thanks for the reply. I have already checked the IP and the domain names, and none seems to be blacklisted. IMHO the problem is on the ISP side : somehow they check the header of the emails for some inconsistencies between the server ip and the sender's domain... Or if too many email addresses of t

Re: Sending bulk emails

2014-08-25 Thread Skip Kimpel
On Aug 25, 2014, at 6:30 AM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: > > Hi list, > Here's my problem : one of our apps is used by different > clients of ours for various tasks, one of them being sending > bulk emails weekly to their own customers. > The number of recipients for each

Sending bulk emails

2014-08-25 Thread jbv
Hi list, Here's my problem : one of our apps is used by different clients of ours for various tasks, one of them being sending bulk emails weekly to their own customers. The number of recipients for each emailing can vary between 800 to 2500. So far we used a php script on our server; this s