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I need a total email system for my web application.
Newsletter delivery once per month.
Notifications when a user has registered with the web app or performed an action within it.
There will be approx 200,000 subscribers to the newsletter running over a period of 4 months sending 1 email per month.
There will be approx 500,000 notification emails sent over the 4 months.
Currently my web app infrastructure is based around a load balanced system which makes it difficult to send the notification emails reliably regarding reverse DNS... is there a clever way around this?
I'm looking at Campaign Monitor for the newsletter management and postmarkapp for the notification emails but pricing seems quite expensive. Is there a service which can combine both of these requirements? Or any other recommendations?
You might want to stick with separating the two just because you don't want to have your emails get mixed up when you are sending them. This is largely in terms of deliverability - if you have customers clicking on "Spam" for your bulk emails, it might affect their ability to receive your transactional emails or emails in general.
I prefer MailChimp over Campaign Monitor because of how awesome their service is and the sort of metrics you get back for newsletters.
I am the Product Manager of PostageApp, so if you have any further questions about what you are trying to do, feel free to reach out and let me know if I can answer anything for you.
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I'm a researcher and i need to send 5000 mail to ask to the targets of my research to compile a survey. I own a gmail account bought to me by the university. How do i send this mail? I can write easily a simple script that send all the email but i'm afraid that sending so much messages could cause me problems leading to the block of my gmail account. I have not been able to understand what are the limits of a gmail account and how to realize a script able to do this without problem.
It's better to not use Gmail for bulk mailouts for multiple reasons:
500 recipient limit: Gmail has a 500 recipient limit for standard mailouts, and I believe 500 mailouts a day limit.[1]
CAN-SPAM Compliance: Sending unsolicited emails may flag your account for spam, therefore compromising sending future emails from your account .
The easiest and best way to do this is either yourself using an SMTP server or using a service such as aWeber or ListWire etc to mail on your behalf for a nominal fee.
I would recommend doing a service if it's only a one off mailout, see this question for various services.
Looking for bulk and transactional email-sending service
Additionally read up on CAN-SPAM compliance in order to ensure that if this is indeed unsolicited[2]. Your survey might be better off on a landing page explaining:
Who you are
What you will do with their information
[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/166852?hl=en
[2] emailmarketing.comm100.com/email-marketing-tutorial/can-spam-compliance.aspx
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I'm working on a app which sends notifications emails. I know this is stereotypical for spam servers. I know the first question ist "How can I ensure what my server will not be listed as a spam server?" However I believe I should monitor my mailserver to ensure what every customer becomes his mails.
So the question: How can I check/monitor whether my server is listed as a spam server?
I really appreciate your help.
MXtoolbox (disclosure: I hold no relation to this site) has a great blacklist checking tool that checks all the major blacklists.
As for staying off them, make sure all your e-mails are opt-in and have an unsubscribe link within the e-mail body of every notification sent. Keep a record of all clients opting in, some hosting companies will charge you a small fortune if you get their IPs blacklisted.
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I've been using sendgrid for a year. Recently, they added fee for using their newsletter app, which use to be free. Buying a self-hosted autoresponder to send newsletters is an over kill for my needs, as I don't need complicated segmentation and features. I'm looking for a SMTP relay service like sendgrid, which also has a newsletter app and can let me do the following from within the interface without extra cost:
Store emails (including extra fields names, etc) in a list.
Create and schedule campaigns.
See or pull open/click reports via API based on domains (hotmail, gmail, etc)
See or pull contact who haven't open or clicked on emails since certain date.
To accomplish the #4 using sendgrid, I have to buy a dedicated server to handle the incoming event notifications as my VPS server can't take the load. That's another extra expense.
Mailjet lets me do 2, 3 and 4 but I can only store contacts with emails. Their app is not designed to save extra fields like names, ips and so on. Moreover, their support is really really slow. It takes days to get a reply.
Any alternatives you can suggest for the features I'm looking for?
Other SMTP relay services that offer newsletter features include Mandrill and Elastic Email.
- Elastic Email's marketing platform is included with all plans.
- Mandrill's WordPress plug-in sends emails generated by WordPress through Mandrill.
Disclaimer: I work for Ombud, a third-party social platform to research B2B technologies such as transactional email delivery and email marketing.
If you follow this link to Ombud, you can create a custom comparison of transactional email delivery solutions based on those features you want: http://ombud.com/r/xo. Hope this helps!
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Mailchimp, the online service for sending newsletters, has an statistics about how many people marked email you sent as spam. Does anybody know how this works? I am asking because I was thinking about how to implement this into my CMS which sends newsletters as well. Thanks for replies!
It's called FBL (feedback loop) and means that you register your MTAs (email sending servers) at the ISPs that supports FBLs (Yahoo, Hotmail etc.)
All you have to do is to sign up for every available FBL via their forms and then they will send you an email every time someone mark email sent from those servers as spam (spam complaints).
Then you'll have to parse those emails to get the information from it.
Have you checked Mailchimp Support?
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-spam-filters-think
An abnormally high bounce rate is another indicator. Look through your hard bounces, and read the SMTP replies. Spam filters sometimes leave little clues about why they blocked your campaign (See: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/why-did-my-email-bounce-smtp-replies).
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I'm sending out a notification email every day to our customers, when new data in our service becomes available. No, it's not spam, it's a notification that customers have asked for, and can be turned off - just in case you were wondering. :)
I noticed that some websites have a noreply#domain.com address which they use to send all the notifications?
Why not just use an email address that is an alias to the support email. That way, if somebody replies to a notification (meaning they have a question) it goes directly to support. Why even bother explaining that "BTW, this email is not supposed to be used for support, please don't reply - use something else instead" when you could just have both pointing to the same inbox anyway? Or is there some other reason that I'm missing?
Maybe they don't want to read all the vacation and failure notices.
Small web sites probably do that, but eBay would be getting 10's of thousands of support emails per day (more than already) if that were the case. They could implement an automated filter of the noreply email address to find some that might need answering.
I guess it also comes to down to the fact that sending you an email from a noreply#* address isn't actually instigating a conversation. If they send you an email to which they want or need a response, or are responding to an email you've sent them, of course it makes no sense to use such an address.
So I don't think it's particularly down to technology, and more about expectations and conforming to people's existing mental models of how conversations and general sales pitches work.