Bulk Email

Hi
i need to know about how can i make an application for Bulk email sending in ASP,
it's disadvantages, advantages
which component i used and any other replated knowledge
Thanks
Humair

Which components are available to you? ....most will be fine.

How many recipients do you have?

Also, do you or the client own the server this will be on?

standard email functions of ASP are not suited to the task of bulk emailing. Use a component - ASPEmail springs to mind and is installed on most Webhosts.

If you're thinking of building yet another 'fantastic super-spamming machine', do the world a favour - don't.

Actually, CDONTS does a very good job of sending bulk email. This is because the object itself does not send the email, it merely composes it and dumps it in a queue. The SMTP Windows service monitors the queue and it deals with sending out the emails.

So, standard email functions of ASP are in fact in my opinion better suited to sending bulk mail than most, however you do not have as much pragmattic control over all aspects of the email as you would with other objects. (I presume this is what D3mon meant)

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Technical questions aside, if you're using shared hosting you're going to get your account closed for spamming since it'll get the hosting company's IP addresses that get black listed.

If it's something legitimate, like an opt-in newsletter then you've got to be able to prove that the subscribers really want to be getting email from you.