I have like 28,000 email on an excel sheet, which is the best tool that i can use to send a mass mail effectively.
Most of the wordpress plugins that i have tried seems not able to send this huge number.
Also on the SMS part for like 2000 contacts.
Shukran
For sms use smsleopard. They actually allow you to send customized sms straight from your excel sheet. The kinds of “Dear [Name]”
refactor to match your requirements cc @Mkulima , and happy coding
/*you will need to import below two namespaces*/
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
namespace Emails
{
internal class email_sender()
{
void send(list<string> email_addresses)
{
MailAddress[] lst_emails = validate_addresses(email_addresses); // check that all addresses meet the uri standard
if(lst_emails.Length > 0 ) {
if( ! send_email(lst_emails ) )
//add something here for dealing with failure
else
//add something here for dealing with success
}
}
bool send_email(MailAddress[] EmailAdresses)
{
bool bResult = false;
try
{
var senders_email = new MailAddress("add senders email address here", "OPTIONAL SENDERS NAME GOES HERE");
//create am SMTP object
var smtp = new SmtpClient
{
Host = smtp_host goes here,
Port = smtp_port goes here,
EnableSsl = true,
DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,
UseDefaultCredentials = false,
Credentials = new NetworkCredential("senders email address", "senders email password")
};
//create a mail message object
using (MailMessage mMessage = new MailMessage(senders_email, EmailAdresses[0])) // user address 0 as TO ADJUST TO MATCH YOUR REQUIREMENTS
{
/* add the rest as cc or bcc but remember to factor in the provider specific limits on number of cc and bcc recipients*/
for (int i = 1; i < EmailAdresses.Length; i++) mMessage.CC.Add(EmailAdresses[i]);
mMessage.Subject = "SUBJECT GOES HERE";
mMessage.ReplyTo = new MailAddress(senders_email.Address); // this is deprecated
mMessage.IsBodyHtml = true;
mMessage.Body = "BODY GOES HERE";
smtp.Send(mMessage);
bResult = true;
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
//DO SOMETHING WITH THE ERROR MESSAGE
}
return bResult;
}
MailAddress[] validate_addresses( List<string> _addresses)
{
MailAddress[] result = new MailAddress[0];
for (int i = 0; i < _addresses.Count; i++)
{
try
{
MailAddress _emallAddress = new MailAddress(_addresses[i]);
if (_emallAddress != null)
{
Array.Resize(ref result, result.Length + 1);
result[result.Length - 1] = _emallAddress;
}
}
catch { }
}
return result;
}
}
}Your tool haina queuing capabilities?
Hii itawekwa wapi kwa wordpress? She hasn’t told us if she’s sending from her website or a desktop mail client…
even if from a website, just create a library that inherits from IHttpHandler
:D:D:D I doubt the host has .NET
:D:D:D:D:D
has native support for PHP which in turn supports .NET since PHP 4
Right. But rarely used… because most PHP sites are hosted on a Linux distro. And in case you want to deploy ASP.NET scripts then you’ll generally have to host on a Windows Server.
i understand what you mean :D:D:D
but you can still do mono
If you have a VM of your own. But on a shared hosting… utaambiwa wacha kusumbua.
you dont need tech support to run mono on apache, sometimes its good to tryout this things
but the i agree with you, for the faint hearted, they are better just using phpmailer
I would have suggested a 3rd party mailing service that has support for queing and all that. 20,000 mails at a go na maybe site iko Kenyaweb ataangusha server ya yenyewe.
Ama awekewe cron job that can send the mails in the background pole pole.
never been a big fan of third party libraries, unless i triple check every single line of code :D:D:D:D
You subscribe to the “Not Invented Here” school of thought
been there, seen it all, i hate the easy way out, once re-compiled some open source piece of shit, 3 weeks later all my alarms went off ,DOS attack, since then… never ever
tumia mail merging
Lipia MailChimp .