sendmail host

[maffs]

Dear all,
Can anyone recommend a host that allows newsletters to be sent out from their server please? I've had a number of hosts claim that you can use sendmail but in the end they simple don't perform on the scale that i need (approx 2000 emails in a number of batches). I have a product called MX Newsletter. If anyone has this product and have it running on their host i'd really be interested in finding out the name of the host

Cheers

Maffs

[hosttds]

This software is php/mysql based. You should be able to use it on any host. I will allow this on my server since its pop3 based as well. As long as you are NOT spamming and have a way to prove it, i will allow it. contact me for more info.

[Rincewind]

Oh dear hosttds - it's clear you are new to this server management business. Yes almost any host will give you sendmail or similar access. It's not the application that is the problem. It's the quantity of mail that you are trying to send. 2000 emails through sendmail in one lump would send the CPU and Memory loads through the roof. Do this repeatedly and any host will tell you where to get off. I personally limit my customers to 60 outgoing emails per hour to prevent such a one person hogging all the resource for all the other sites.

If you are sending large quantities of mail (over 100 at a time) then you should really get a dedicated mail server or at least a VPS account to use as a mail server. That way you can load the server with as much mail as you like without it affecting other customers - or even your own web site. Alternativly, use one of the dedicated maillist sites out there such as automateyourwebsite.com or getresponse.com

[bfrizz]

You may want to talk to a host specifically for smtp services. Some ez1web.com comes to mind) do provide separate stmp machines that can handle the load and are separate from the web machines. The service can be reasonably cheap (2000 emails isn't that much, though more than a shared hosting machine will want to see).