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pietbez

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So what is the big secret with mass mailing. i have searched forums, scripts, freelancers and everything i can think of but just cant get info about it.

 

i have a db of about 3000 registered members. i need to mail a newsletter on a regular basis.

 

the php script that i use works fine for small batches, but wont send more than 300 at a time.

it pulls the newsletter from a bd, and also pulls the emails from a db.

 

what is the "right way" to do this.

 

Batch mails?  multiple smtp's? 

 

i have had several freelance scripter work on this but cant solve my problem.

 

is there a single corect way to do this, is my approach way off the mark?

 

please help, or point me in the right direction.

 

 

 

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essentially 2 ways,

 

1 is a good script that can queue the mailings, send off 20 - 100 at a time with a 10 minute pause between sends

 

the other way is to send them all out as a single message making all the emails a BCC

 

quite a few scripts that can queue up mail,

try testing a few out, if you still have trouble send me a message and I'll see if I can help

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this is the script i am using at the moment. is this script badly written? can i modify this script to work corectly or should i start from scrach with a new approach?

all i need is to know that my newsletter is going out to all my members.

 

what is the most effective, batch or bcc?

 

 <? 
include('../functions.php');
if(!$_SESSION['admin_logged_in'])
{
header('Location: ' .LOGIN_URL );
}

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Admin | Send mass mail</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<body>
<?
$letter_id = ( !empty($_REQUEST['letter_id']) ) ? $_REQUEST['letter_id'] : FALSE;
$msg='';

$let_info=get_letter($letter_id);
$letter_title=$let_info['name'];
$hf=get_hf();


if (isset($_REQUEST['submit_preview']))
{
$ready_to_send = true;
$letter_body='';
$letter_body=$hf['header'].'<br>'.$let_info['content'].'<br>'.$hf['footer'].'<br>';
}

if (isset($_REQUEST['submit_mass_mail']))
{
$info=get_mass_mails();

$members=$info['items'];

$oks=$bads=$invalids=0;


$letter_body='';

$headers='';
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From:  dorp <[email protected]>'. "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

$hf_header_tmp = $hf['header'];

$let_info_tmp .= $let_info['content'];


for ($i=0; $i<$info['total']; $i++) 
{
	$name = $members[$i]['name'];
	$email = $members[$i]['email'];

	if (valid_mail($email)) 
	{	
		//$headers .= "To: $name <$email>" . "\r\n";		
		$hf['header'] = str_replace('[name]', $name, $hf_header_tmp);
                        $hf['footer'] = str_replace("[email]", $email, $hf['footer']);

		$let_info['content'] = str_replace('[name]', $name, $let_info_tmp);


		$letter_body =$hf['header'].'<br>'.$let_info['content'].'<br>
<img src="http://www.xxxx.co.uk/cpanel/mail.php?id='.$letter_id.'&u='.$members[$i]['id'].'">'.$hf['footer'].'<br>';
		$letter_body = str_replace("\n.", "\n..", $letter_body);



	 	if (mail($email, $letter_title, $letter_body, $headers))
			++$oks;
	 	else ++$bads;

	}
	else 
	{
		++$invalids;
	}
}

$all=$oks+$bads+$invalids;
$msg="<br>Mailing reports:<br>
<br>Letter: #$letter_id - $letter_title<br>
<br>Sent: $oks
<br>Failed:	$bads<br>
<br>Invalid E-mails: $invalids<br>
<br>Total: $all .";

create_log_entry($_SESSION['auth_literal_admin_level'].' '.$_SESSION['auth_admin_name'].$msg,$_SESSION['auth_admin_name'],'mailing');
//
}
?>
<br />
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function disableForm(theform) {
if (document.all || document.getElementById) 
{
	for (i = 0; i < theform.length; i++) 
	{
		var tempobj = theform.elements[i];
		if (tempobj.name.toLowerCase() == "submit_mass_mail" || tempobj.type.toLowerCase() == "submit_preview")
		tempobj.disabled = true;
	}
}
}
</script>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="mass_mailer.php?letter_id=<? echo $letter_id; ?>"><!-- onSubmit="return disableForm(this);" -->

<table width="685" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="input_form">
  <tr>
    <th colspan="2" scope="row">Send mass mail </th>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="style7" scope="row"> </td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="85" class="style7" scope="row">Choose letter </td>
    <td width="412">
<select name="letter_id" id="letter_id">
<?
 $eq = get_letters();
 $eq_info = $eq['items'];

 for ($i=0; $i<$eq['total']; $i++) 
 {
	 if ($eq_info[$i]['id'] == $letter_id) 
	 	$chx='selected="selected"';
	 else $chx='';
	 echo "<option value='{$eq_info[$i]['id']}' $chx>{$eq_info[$i]['name']}</option>\r\n";
}
?>
    </select>
<input name="submit_preview" type="submit" id="submit_preview" value="Preview!" /></td>
  </tr> <? if ($ready_to_send) {?>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" scope="row"><span class="style7">
You are about to send a mass mail to
<? echo count_members(); ?> members of your site
    </span></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="header" scope="row"><div align="center"><span class="style7">
      
    </span>** Letter preview below ** <span class="style7">
  
    </span></div>  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" scope="row"><? echo $letter_title ; ?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" scope="row"><? echo $letter_body ; ?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="header" scope="row"><div align="center"><span class="style7"> </span>** end preview ** <span class="style7"> </span></div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" scope="row"><div align="center"> 
          <script language="javascript">
function write_message(letter_id) 
{
	alert(letter_id);
//document.write('Please be patient while mailing list is processed! This may take a while, depending on the total users...');
}
</script>
        </div></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" scope="row">
      <div align="center">
        <input name="submit_mass_mail" type="submit" id="submit_mass_mail" value="Send mass mail!" />
        <span class="error"><br />(press only once and wait the page to load completely!)</span></div></td>
  </tr> 
  <? ;} ?>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" scope="row">
<div align="left" class="error">
  <? if ($msg!='') {echo $msg;} ?>
</div>	</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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