Mailing List Manager (Update)
Posted by Tim on Apr 21, 2011 at 10:20pmIntroduction
Over the past few weeks, I have been working on creating a program that will send an e-mail to a list of e-mail addresses. There are programs/systems that already do this, but all of the ones that I found either required that recipients opt-in for the e-mails, required that you pay before you use it or just didn’t work.
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My mailing list manager sends e-mail via SMTP and requires that the user has an existing e-mail account that supports SMTP. In order not to overwhelm the mail server, there is a delay of twelve second between when e-mails are sent. In addition to sending out e-mails, my program also monitors the e-mail account to see if any e-mails are undeliverable; if any e-mails are undeliverable, then the e-mail address is flagged by the program. Lastly, my program also monitors the e-mail account to see if any recipients have requested to be removed from the list; to be removed, recipients simply reply to a message and include the word “unsubscribe” to the subject; my program searches the subject line and if it finds the word unsubscribe, then the recipient’s e-mail address is flagged.
I have included a demo version of the program below. The demo version is for testing/evaluation purposes and has been limited to send a maximum of 10 e-mails per mailing.
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Mass Emailer
