What's the best way to send out my newsletters?

[computerbarry]

Hi all

Been running a site now for some time and have a basic PHP form to submit email address to my DB table.newsletter on my site.

My problem is; I now have hundreds of email address but not sure or what script to use to automatically send out monthly newsletters weekly newsletters or just send them when I have some site updates.

What do you suggest? What will I need to do?

Basically I need something to pass my latest newsletter/email to and run through my DB and send them to all the email address individually.

Thanks cb

[Nadia P]

have you possibly thought of an email service - the following comes highly recommended and isn't all that expensive from what I've been told:
http://www.mailchimp.com/index.phtml

and the other:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

Nadia

[computerbarry]

Great links Nadia thanks!

I was hoping to build a script of my own to take care of all this. Gets a bit pricey if you need to start sending out a few thousand newsletters a month or every week.

Can anybody else help with this?

Thanks

[cipals15]

Problogger Darren Rowse is using Aweber for his newsletter distribution. He said it was good. Maybe you could try it yourself.

[Nadia P]

Actually if you're using php, you may want to ask the question over at the php forum: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=34
You may get some useful tips over there.

Nadia

[computerbarry]

Thanks cipals15 another good link here but again, gets a bit pricey over time.

Yes will do Nadia a think that might be the best option.

Thanks for the input.
Cheers

[sampath1]

i think you can use Aweber email service this site offer many controls for your newsletters.

[CrispinCannes]

Constant COntact is easy to use and very reliable.

[perkiekat]

Check out Vertical Response. You can pay per email sent or they just started a monthly script as well. i use it for our company email blasters. Works great and you can add your own html if you choose to do so.