On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Steve Love <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the pointers, Scott, and also for the word of caution on > the emails. I considered the possible impact of sending one email per > subscriber on high-traffic sites but wasn't sure of any better > alternatives. I thought maybe a queue might help, but a very active > post could create quite a backlog. Is there any sense in sending > emails with 10 or so BCC recipients at a time?
I think it's worth batching subscribers together in the BCC field. In my experience, I never found a hosting provider that imposed a limit less than 30, so 30 BCC recipients per batch makes a pretty good default. It maximizes the number of recipients per SMTP transaction, it doesn't look like spam, and most blogs should probably be able to deliver to all recipients with a single message. > I seem to remember the subscribe2 plugin making use of a crontab. Did > you ever come up with any best practices for sending out subscriber > emails? The cron stuff in subscribe2 was to send a daily digest of posts each day, rather than one email per post. I have no information on how widely used this feature was. I wouldn't spend a lot of time adding such functionality at this time. Cheers, Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
