Hi there,
due to the webhosting company's restrictions I would need to have an options to send one e-mail to more than one recipient. My customer has more than 13k e-mail addresses in the database and the webhosting company told me that the only way how we can send newsletters to this amount of recipients in reasonable amount of time is to put 100 addresses in BCC. So what I need is to send 130 e-mails, each with 100 e-mail addresses in BCC field. Is this doable with Simplenews?
I do realise that with this scenarion Siplenews can't put the unsubscribe link in the e-mail anymore (as this one is different per every single subscription), however I am happy to accept this as users always have the option to unsubscribe via the form on the page.
Thanks.
Comments
Comment #1
simon georges commentedThis is actually not doable with Simplenews, as it changes the sending process.
This would be a new feature, and no feature will be added to 6.x-1.x, therefore I'm changing the version.
Comment #2
miro_dietikerI could imagine we'll add a bcc sending support for special mass cases.
However, this is only for the edge case where no personalization and no permission segmentation is applied.
So let's keep this feature request open atm.
Comment #3
d.jankovics commentedsubscribing.
maybe i can help - only with planning and testing, i don't know php yet.
please let me know how.
thanks
Comment #4
miro_dietikerThis feature won't be added to 6.x path.
Adding this feature to D7 is possibly subject of future development. However no current priority.
The feature should however be considered as a later addon when developing
#700308: Allow separate theming of each individual outgoing email instead of caching the prepared newsletter
Comment #5
miro_dietikerImproving title to fit BCC
Comment #6
yautja_cetanu commentedWouldn't this case be solved better by sending the e-mails in batches? From the Host's point of view they wouldn't know the difference right? For smaller sites you just have to increase the time between batches and make the batches smaller?
Comment #7
berdirWe are sending them in batches already. However, each sent e-mail has a certain, fixed overhead (like network/mailserver delays) and some hosters limit the amount of mails that can be sent in a given timeframe.
EDIT: Ah, I assume you mean batch e-mail on the mail transport level, not batches as in Drupal batches. Well, that could be an option, but I don't think the Drupal mail API supports this and it would have the same drawbacks (see below) as BCC, no?
This would be an additional feature on top of that, which could offer huge performance gains but has quite some drawbacks like not being able to use subscriber tokens (which includes a direct unsubscribe link).
It has no high priority and we have no plans to implement this in the foreseeable future but there is no reason to close the feature request, maybe someone will need exactly this feature and will implement it. In fact, it might even be possible to do this in a separate module with our current mail generation/send architecture.
Comment #8
miro_dietikerPromoting to 8.x roadmap / wishes.