Question

As title states, i need to send 80,000 emails within 6 hours. But without causing a huge load on the server while doing so. I don’t want to go to a 3rd party emailer, although I would be interested in their delivery times for a mailing list of this size.

PHP, PHPMailer

Any suggestions?

Ok, as everyone seems to think this is suspicious, let me further explain. I send a newsletter once a week to a list of subscribers who have opted-in (legally) to our list. Often times we don’t get the copy for our newsletters finalised till the actual day. In most cases, the copy is date sensitive.

Just because someone needs to send alot of emails quickly, doesn’t mean its spam related. It’s called have a very old and popular website with a large member base.

I have very aware of dealing with bounce backs, spamlists, etc. Just need to think of ways to send quicker. It seems that alot of the ‘commercial’ grade providers can send something that size in less than 1 hour! I want to do the same.

Answer 1

I send 20k newsletter emails once or twice a month (with PHPMailer), and it takes 2.5 hours on the virtual machine we use for this, since they are all unique emails. You have a few options though:

• group the recipients in smaller batches with bcc (only if the e-mails are not recipient specific)
• upgrade you hardware (if you have money and access to it)