What's the best way to do this?

[imgrooot]

Say I am using a normal web hosting company like Namecheap. I have a cron job set to send emails to 100,000 users each day, what would be the best way to deliver those emails the fastest? I know there are other platforms that allows you to send mass emails. But those you have to manually input the email list. I want it automated running from the cron job.

[requinix]

The best way is to not do it yourself: sending 100k emails per day from a generic hosting company is a reliable way to get your server blacklisted and emails blocked. There are plenty of services that provide APIs.

[imgrooot]

7 hours ago, requinix said:

The best way is to not do it yourself: sending 100k emails per day from a generic hosting company is a reliable way to get your server blacklisted and emails blocked. There are plenty of services that provide APIs.

Could you please give me an example of a good service that provides the API? 

I've used https://www.sender.net to send bulk emails before. But this is using an email list. And it doesn't seem like they have an API.

[cyberRobot]

Constant Contact has one here:
https://developer.constantcontact.com/docs/developer-guides/api-documentation-index.html

Here's another for MailChimp:
https://mailchimp.com/developer/

I should mention that I don't spend much time with these services. I've only used them to set something up for others who are responsible for sending out mailings. Both services have work well for the project needs. Note that I haven't used either of the aforementioned APIs.

[cyberRobot]

43 minutes ago, imgrooot said:

I've used https://www.sender.net to send bulk emails before. But this is using an email list. And it doesn't seem like they have an API.

Perhaps this will help:
https://help.sender.net/section/api-integrations/

Edited October 22, 2019 by cyberRobot

[ginerjm]

I'm a bit leary of your proposal.  You are need of help to send out 100k emails a day and you don't already have the talent available to guide you in this?  I don't like the sound of this project of yours.  Should we be helping out a future email-scammer?  Or is there an explanation that would convince us that we are not encouraging such behavior?

[requinix]

43 minutes ago, ginerjm said:

I'm a bit leary of your proposal.  You are need of help to send out 100k emails a day and you don't already have the talent available to guide you in this?  I don't like the sound of this project of yours.  Should we be helping out a future email-scammer?  Or is there an explanation that would convince us that we are not encouraging such behavior?

If imgroot had just joined then I would be leery too, but I think after ~280 posts they've earned some trust. Perhaps you could try aiming all of your posts in a more helpful direction and away from the critical and insulting?

[ginerjm]

I wasn't trying to be insulting, merely questioning the needs he has to be sending out that many email per day.

[imgrooot]

1 hour ago, requinix said:

If imgroot had just joined then I would be leery too, but I think after ~280 posts they've earned some trust. Perhaps you could try aiming all of your posts in a more helpful direction and away from the critical and insulting?

Thanks for backing me up. 

The 100k emails per day is an extreme example I gave. I just want to make sure that a platform I build is able to accommodate that kind of numbers if ever need be and that I'm using the right service to accomplish it. This is merely sending email notifications to registered users, nothing else.

[maxxd]

In my experience, from both an API and UI-based perspective, MailChimp is much easier to use than Constant Contact. Just a personal opinion on the matter, but I will always lean towards MC over CC.