New large mailing list

AlanCranston

Hi, we are a new and small charity which until now had a mailing list which was tiny (c400). Through a joint campaign with another much larger charity, we now have a mailing list of over 20,000. I feel sure I can't just write and send a newsletter without doing more preparation. For example, I think it would take far too long to send (several days) at the rate I am used to. Please advise. What do I need to do to get the newsletter out safely and with minimum spam problems?

mihha

You would need to:

make sure you have DKIM, SPF and DMARC records set corectly
your emails are not treated as spam. Use spam test tool to check this
you are using email server which allows you to send larger number of emails per hour and per day
your max_execution_time set in php.ini set high enough to support longer batch executions

AlanCranston

Thank you. Unfortunately, having checked it the host server, there is no way I can use it. So now it is a new question: what is the best emailer to pair with: Mailchimp? This is unknown territory for me.

mihha

Not sure I understand what exactly you can't use?

Which of the suggestions I listed is not possible for you to change?

AlanCranston

I have to change email server. Presently the website is hosted on a server which depracates 'bulk email'. They advise me to go for a specific service such as Mailchimp. But the question is what is best to work with Acymailing on the website.

jvstratum

Hi,

You can have a look at https://elasticemail.com/, it's also integrated in Acymailing.