如何处理群发电子邮件

Question

I'm about ready to unveil a "coming soon" page and one thing I need is a way for users to enter their email address for me to email once the site goes live. What is the best way to do this?

Should I store the emails in a DB and then run a PHP script to email them from my web host? Should I have the emails just kind of be collected and then emailed manually by me either locally or from the server? Is there another way I should do it?

Also, are there certain web-hosts that restrain the amount of emails you can send out, thus causing a problem for mass email.

The only "unknown" currently is how large of a response I'll get...only time will tell.

Thanks guys!

Answer 1

Store it in the database - Yes. It's no unlike storing any other piece of data.

Mass email at once - No

Mass email manually (or individually mail manually) - No

Do some web hosts limit how many you can send at once? - Yes

I don't know the "best" way but I know a really good way. We have built several mass emailing programs and the technique we incorporated was a throttling technique whereby we had a script that ran every three minutes and sent 20 emails at a time.

It keeps the server from choking and the mail queue from exceeding any of our hosts' mail limits.