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Email sender

by Wilky
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Hi there,
I transferred an amateur forum to a new hosting service but I found out later that one of the administrators of this forum had been using a mail ring to contact the users. The problem now is that the present server will not allow so many mails, just over 2000, to be sent at the same time, but only about 100 mails per hour. I would like to know if you have any idea how we can overcome this problem, maybe with a plugin phpbb or some free user friendly programmes so that he can carry on communicating with his clients without the server crashing. I suppose that something can be done with the code but I really wanted to know if there already is a solution for this kind of problem as this kind of forum is quite popular and considering the fact that the service provider is one of the most important I know.
Thank you
#email #sender
  • Profile picture of the author CoursesWeb
    Hi,
    I think you can use anoter email server, with a SMTP account.
    For example GMail, which is free, but perhaps blocks accounts which send so many emails.
    You can use a paid email server, and set phpbb to send e-mails via SMTP, with that account.
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  • Profile picture of the author flashisland
    Take a look at Send Grid. You can use their SMTP relay to easily send out emails. Their "lite tier" only costs ten cents per thousand emails sent and they take care of bounced emails and spam reports. Amazon also has a similar service called SES, although it is not as good in my opinion.
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    • Profile picture of the author raggupta2
      If you use Gmail etc then you can send max of 500/day but most of your emails will land in spam in hotmail/yahoo/gmail.
      I'd advise you go for something like Mailchimp. At least your most of email will be read by someone!
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  • Profile picture of the author inferta
    you can have some hosting solution, it is better
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  • Profile picture of the author annife polak
    I would recommend you to use gmail. If its not working for you can program your own email sender (php) aka same solution as inferta suggested.

    Cheers.
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