Posted by drupalina on December 2, 2008 at 2:21pm
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| Project: | Mass Contact |
| Version: | 5.x-2.4 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (works as designed) |
Issue Summary
Hi,
I have a site that I started few months back. Users just came, registered, used it for few days and then forgot about it.
Now I have a lot more features and I want to send them a reminder email like "Hey, we've got lots of cool new features. Come back and use our site"
I have about 200 registered accounts. My main support question is Can this module send e-mail to all of these 200 emails all at once? What about 1000 - is there a limit? (I'm with Hostmonster)
Will I be marked as a "spammer"?
Thanks for your help
Comments
#1
This is probably way past when you needed it, but here goes. The limitations on the number of users to send to are your server(s) and/or ISP. They should be able to handle 200 users easy enough, but may balk at 1000 -- I don't know. You can specify a number in the admin settings, and it will send more e-mails to a smaller number of users.
As far as the spam issue goes, there are some hosts that do mark e-mail from Drupal as spam. Since this module uses the Drupal mailer, there is the possibility that it might get marked as spam. Some things you can try are: using the SMTP Authentication Support or some similar module, which circumvents the Drupal mail method and uses some other method, and forming your e-mail such that it doesn't imitate the way spam e-mails work, including the subject.
#2
I have a similar question. I have not yet installed the module. At the moment I am building a site, wich should become quite big, so i suppose once i will have to send emails to more than 10.000 users - is that possible with this module?
Kind regards,
nocte
#3
I realize it's probably a moot point by now, but yes, it is possible to send messages to more than 10,000 users. It really depends on the sending server's capabilities, as this module simply forwards the messages to it. There is also a facility for breaking up the recipient list to smaller chunks, and then this module would be sending the message to the server multiple times, each with a smaller and different list of recipients.