sending bulk e-mails
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sameera
Nov 23, 2009, 6:13:39 AM11/23/09
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Hi All,
when you have to send bulk e-mail (say 2000 e-mails) what is the
method you use,
1 - workling / starling
2 - ar_mailer
3 - background drb etc..
cheers,
Sameera
when you have to send bulk e-mail (say 2000 e-mails) what is the
method you use,
1 - workling / starling
2 - ar_mailer
3 - background drb etc..
cheers,
Sameera
Lakshan Perera
Nov 23, 2009, 11:04:00 AM11/23/09
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In my experience more than the scheduling technique, the real bottleneck in sending emails is with the mail server.
It's very difficult to track delivery, avoid blacklisting and taking action on error reports.
For announcement newsletters and stuff, CampaignMonitor or MailChimp does a good job. But seems services like MadMimi (http://madmimi.com) is even better, because of the out of the box Rails support (Here is the plugin - http://github.com/redsquirrel/mad_mimi_mailer/)
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LP
It's very difficult to track delivery, avoid blacklisting and taking action on error reports.
For announcement newsletters and stuff, CampaignMonitor or MailChimp does a good job. But seems services like MadMimi (http://madmimi.com) is even better, because of the out of the box Rails support (Here is the plugin - http://github.com/redsquirrel/mad_mimi_mailer/)
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LP
Shamika Ariyawansa
Nov 23, 2009, 11:36:10 PM11/23/09
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If there is a delayed task to be done ill always go for backroundrb..... It gives us a very good cron like interface for scheduled tasks as well.
sameera gayan
Nov 24, 2009, 12:15:18 AM11/24/09
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I have found a rails plugin(http://terra-firma-design.com/blog/17-Ruby-Gem-and-Rails-Plugin-for-Mailchimp) for mailchimp (http://www.mailchimp.com/). It looks like a good one
I was able to create a campaign / add recipients etc.. (And their pricing is also not bad for a company - just to check I signed-up with a free account), I'll let you'll know the progress.
@lakshan, http://madmimi.com is giving only 100 mails in their free account and mailchimp looks more attractive :)
@shamika , thanks for the tip :)
I was able to create a campaign / add recipients etc.. (And their pricing is also not bad for a company - just to check I signed-up with a free account), I'll let you'll know the progress.
@lakshan, http://madmimi.com is giving only 100 mails in their free account and mailchimp looks more attractive :)
@shamika , thanks for the tip :)
thanks and best regards,
Sameera
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Gaveen Prabhasara
Nov 24, 2009, 2:05:25 PM11/24/09
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Hi,
Sendgrid is another good looking service. Their free accounts support sending upto
200 mails per day. They don't seem to have a Rails plugin yet (but provides an API).
Heroku is working with Sendgrid BTW. And their pricing is quite reasonable, basic
starting from $9.95/month.
http://sendgrid.com/
Gaveen Prabhasara
http://gaveen.owain.org
http://gaveen.prabhasara.com
Sendgrid is another good looking service. Their free accounts support sending upto
200 mails per day. They don't seem to have a Rails plugin yet (but provides an API).
Heroku is working with Sendgrid BTW. And their pricing is quite reasonable, basic
starting from $9.95/month.
http://sendgrid.com/
Gaveen Prabhasara
http://gaveen.owain.org
http://gaveen.prabhasara.com
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