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Re: [PLUG] what is the best way to bulk email 2 million opt in email addresses?
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Marc Zucchelli wrote:
| A client of mine is looking to purchase about 2
| million email addresses from infousa. It is my job as
| the tech guy to get the emails sent. What is the best
| way to do this? I have written smaller perl scripts
| for customers of mine to email all 500 of their
| registered users for their ecommerce site at once.
| But 2 million is a different story. I am mainly
| concerned about the webhost shutting down the website
| because they *think* we are spamming, or even verizon
| dsl shutting down the service if I have it done from
| their personal computer. Also, how do you keep track
| of whom the email is sent to during the process incase
| I have to start the script over in the middle of the
| mailing.....I thought I can set a flag in a mysql db,
| but can mysql efficiently handle 2 million records?
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| Would it make more sense to have this done
| professionally? Any other options?
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| Thanks alot.
You could just not do it, because you *are* spamming. Explain to your
client that nobody wants the junk email.
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