Automate emails to send every 30 minutes

automating email, newlstters

[drooh]

Here is the scenario. We have a database of 500+ emails that is continually growing. We send out a monthly newsletter. Currently we are doing this manually by sending about 15 emails at a time as to avoid be labeled spam.

My question is:

*Is there a way to use javascript w/ php to automate a newsletter to send every 30 mins to a different group of emails?

I currently have a way to poll out a set number of emails at a time into an array, but can this be automated?

Any comments or suggestions welcomed, thanks!

[Dabrowski]

Why use JS, where is the data stored, in what database?

[rocknbil]

Agreed, you want to do this server-side because:

- you will want to execute the timed emailings with a cron job
- you will want to record each mailing somewhere in your database so you can review which emails were sent, and when
- emailing from the server-side in an automated process is by far less demanding that a web-initiated process
- a server-side process is probably much more secure because you shouldn't have it accessible by the web in any way

[drooh]

sweet, so what do i do?
can php do this by itself?
if so can you point me in the right direction..?

Why use JS, where is the data stored, in what database?

I dont know why use js, that's why im asking, silly...
as for the emails, yes they are in a mysql db.

[rocknbil]

I would do the email programming in perl, but most people would suggest php.

[Dabrowski]

I use Perl/MySQL on some very big database web frontend apps. I would use Perl.

Also you can install Perl as a service on your server to do this completely in the background. If it was a big/regular job I'd do it that way, and get it to email me when it's done for a status report.