2 years, 9 months ago
How to best and cheaply deliver sign-up e-mails to my website new members?
Aweber and similar autoresponder services seems expensive. I will only send one e-mail, which is the "Welcome e-mail" so they can confirm their account by clicking on a link.
I don't plan on having a newsletter or regular mailing whatsoever. Paying a monthly fee for Aweber feels expensive.
If I use my own mail server, somehow it gets junked by hotmail and other services for no apparent reason. I've put DNS (txt) SPF records for my mail server and I'm careful of the keywords I'm using in the welcome e-mail, but it stills gets junked a lot.
I don't plan on having a newsletter or regular mailing whatsoever. Paying a monthly fee for Aweber feels expensive.
If I use my own mail server, somehow it gets junked by hotmail and other services for no apparent reason. I've put DNS (txt) SPF records for my mail server and I'm careful of the keywords I'm using in the welcome e-mail, but it stills gets junked a lot.
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This is probably the best walkthrough on how to do this. It also includes a link for the code. Even if you do not know much PHP it would be very easy for a friend of yours to help. This will probably only take you an hour or two.
Rather than try to reproduce this fine piece of work I will just link it. Basically by implementing this solution you can avoid a ton of spam, and you will find yourself satisfied having accomplished this task.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-implement-email-verification-for-new-members/
Good Luck!
Rather than try to reproduce this fine piece of work I will just link it. Basically by implementing this solution you can avoid a ton of spam, and you will find yourself satisfied having accomplished this task.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-implement-email-verification-for-new-members/
Good Luck!
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I appreciate you trying to answer my question, unfortunately it doesn't exactly answer my problem. Like I said in my question, when I use my own mail server (a similar script to what you're suggesting) the e-mails I'm sending are getting junked.
When using a service like aweber, their mail servers are "whitelisted" with most e-mail providers thus why it gets delivered and not junked.
I'm trying to achieve the same without a hefty price tag. I've tried to put SPF records on our DNS servers (as mentioned in my question) for our mail servers, but we are still unable to have an acceptable delivery rate.