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Topic: Send Newsletter out - How many members in a day?

Hello,

I tried to send a newsletter out to all registered members but I received too many error messages from my mail server. I think because I have about 10,000 members, so free emails like Hotmail or Yahoo or Gmail will block my mail server when I send too many emails in one day.

So, my question is how many members should I send out in a day? Is there a way to send 50 or 100 members a day?

Thanks.

Life is short, try to do something good!
Gay Online - Black Singles

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Re: Send Newsletter out - How many members in a day?

What kind of error messages do you receive? Check them, because it's normal to receive error messages if you send email to expired/discontinued adresses and full mailboxes. Periodically I delete the accounts related to them. Maybe you have a big amount of old accounts. Last month I deleted 800 old accounts related to email addresses not working anymore.

Last edited by orange_slice (2011-12-09 20:25:43)

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Re: Send Newsletter out - How many members in a day?

Yes the 'invalid' emails are a big problem for anyone sending out newsletters; its something you have to keep on top of otherwise services like hotmail and yahoo might eventually mark you as a spammer. Both hotmail and yahoo often return automated mail and mark it as "mailbox unavailable". This doesn't give the member the chance to see it. I advise all members to add our email address to their contacts list which reduces the chance of those mails being returned, but not every member bothers to do it.

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Re: Send Newsletter out - How many members in a day?

How do I know these 'invalid' emails? Don't I have to check every member?

Also, If you remove hundreds of profiles in a week, then it may hurt your ranking on seo, doesn't it?

thanks.

Life is short, try to do something good!
Gay Online - Black Singles

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Re: Send Newsletter out - How many members in a day?

No you don't need to check every member, but when you get 'bounced' emails spend some time dealing with them. If they say the the user "doesn't have a yahoo/hotmail/whatever account' then you have to decide whether to remove that member or sent a PM asking them to update their email address. Personally, I also check their last log in date; if its old then I delete them. If its recent them I PM them - I also have a note about keeping email addresses undated in my FAQS/Terms of Use. After a week I'll delete them if they haven't changed their address. Some bounced emails will say something like 'this account is inactive or has been deactivated' - I usually PM these guys first, then delete them if there are repeated bounced emails. Its a pain but its also important not to be pinned as a spammer. Some email services will do that if you keep getting large numbers of bounced emails.