Hi John,
I've been wrestling with sending limits for awhile now. We use Google mail but any mail hosting service we've contacted seems to have sending limits of 1000 or less. Since our list has grown to over 1000, this has posed problems. Getting staff to send the email 3 or 4 times isn't really an option.
Looking back at Google's documentation, they recommend sending portions of the list from different email addresses. So we could have a half dozen email addresses like
[email protected],
[email protected], etc. This would work fine for us. I can have most of the addresses forward any responses to one main newsletter address. And this way, the staff doesn't have to worry about waiting an hour or more before sending the next batch.
The mail server settings for a batch seem to be set in the "connect to server" script, in a variable called $connectionSettings. The variable looks like this:
$connectionType="SMTP";$server="mail.something.net";$userName="";$password="";$authType="Login";$useSSL="sslOff";$timeout="60";$port="25"
This data gets pulled from the current user account, but for now I'd probably just hard code a few different variations of this as variables, each giving a different $userName and $password. The question is how to make the switch midway through sending a batch.
In the script "send all messages ( no dialog )", the "connect to server" and "disconnect from server" scripts are called before and after the loop, which makes sense. Before reworking the loop to disconnect and reconnect with new account info every few hundred messages, I wanted to run this by you and see if there are any pitfalls I should be aware of. Or maybe you know of this being done by someone else and have a recommendation? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks John.
Larry