Sending Bulk Emails with ASPEmail

[RFH Reseller: carpeni]

Hi
We want sent send messages out via a small email to all our members on our database - circa 500.

We use ASPemail to notify us when a new input is made. Can ASPEmail be used to do bulk mailing by scrolling through a recordset to pick up email address and then send that email out?

When we use localhost as the mail host, does that use the Red Fox server as outgoing? Does it work OK with multi email requests.

The emails are legit as they only go to our registered members.

Anybody tried this? - or know of a better method.

Thanks

Ian

[RFH Reseller: SKILLIT]

Yes - we have some standard mailings which do exactly this.

We have designed the mailing runs to be restartable and we keep the ID of the last customer sent in a special database table which has a record per mailing type.
We usually limit the number of mails sent at a time [Select top 200 * ...] to reduce the possibility of being classed by them as spam and as most of them visit our site after reading the mail to edit their advertisements to spread the load a bit.

We send mails only to one address at a time

localhost uses the webserver to send out the mails [Public IP address, not any private IP]

All works well, even hightly customised html pages such as :
http://bookholidayrentals.com/Mail2/...F-77F19BFD8D75

David.

[RFH Reseller: carpeni]

Thanks - I'll give it a try. Do you use the mail=Queue command?