Sending 500K Emails one Time?

[Laritha]

I have an email list of 500k contacts. I want to send an offer to them all without landing into spam. I only need to send 1 email, one time. If the domain is blacklisted afterwards it's OK.

Any services you recommend that would allow me to create a new domain, and get started today?

 

[code API]

Do you want to send all the 500k emails at once?

 

[Trantow Milton]

what kind of content ?

 

[Laritha]

Do you want to send all the 500k emails at once?

It would be ideal, but not necessary. However within one week if possible.

 

[Laritha]

what kind of content ?

what kind of content ?

Design services. The contacts are all individuals who expressed interest and opt in.

 

[Deleted member 1958059]

I think another important question is what kind of emails are there in your list. Sending at once to a large number of Gmail accounts will definitely add your domain or even smtp to a block list. And same probably goes with other email providers.

But besides that, out of curiosity, why is it that you need "all at once"? Is there going to be a degradation of your return if you go slower, eg. over the course of 2 days / 7 days / one month?

 

[Laritha]

I think another important question is what kind of emails are there in your list. Sending at once to a large number of Gmail accounts will definitely add your domain or even smtp to a block list. And same probably goes with other email providers.

But besides that, out of curiosity, why is it that you need "all at once"? Is there going to be a degradation of your return if you go slower, eg. over the course of 2 days / 7 days / one month?

A large amount of them are Gmail for sure. It doesn't have to be same day but the offer has an expiration date so it can't take longer than a week to send them all.

 

[Deleted member 1958059]

I think the Gmail ones are going to be a problem. Half a million is definitely a tricky number. I think in the future you need to trim down this list and employ something along the lines of the Pareto principle - keep 20% of emails which bring 80% of business, because your list is definitely going to raise some eyebrows. From what I understand serious providers will employ different tactics to figure out whether the traffic is legitimate or not (similarity based clustering of content, sender email / domain / smtp clustering, user feedback, etc) and sending to such a large number of accounts will trigger a bunch of these systems for sure.

My best advice is "sort your list", send to the most important people first and perhaps use some kind of paid email sending service (eg Amazon SES or something similar)l.

 

[Laritha]

I think the Gmail ones are going to be a problem. Half a million is definitely a tricky number. I think in the future you need to trim down this list and employ something along the lines of the Pareto principle - keep 20% of emails which bring 80% of business, because your list is definitely going to raise some eyebrows. From what I understand serious providers will employ different tactics to figure out whether the traffic is legitimate or not (similarity based clustering of content, sender email / domain / smtp clustering, user feedback, etc) and sending to such a large number of accounts will trigger a bunch of these systems for sure.

My best advice is "sort your list", send to the most important people first and perhaps use some kind of paid email sending service (eg Amazon SES or something similar)l.

I'm totally OK with going the paid servicr route. However many of them will close your account before or during the sending process.

 

[Deleted member 1958059]

Yeah, I was reading about Amazon SES and I think you are right. You cannot actually even pay for the service directly, you have to contact the sales team and explain your use case first.

 

[rogata]

It's possible to send all at once, but the chance of your domain getting blacklisted is high
consider using services from Mailgun or Mailchimp , these platforms help you to create domains and send mails

 

[Montage Motion]

At once send 500k mails it's not possible.

 

[smarttraffic]

What does it mean to send 500k emails at once?If you want to do it in one second, it’s probably very complicated, although not impossible.But if you want to send them over the course of 24 hours, meaning 20,000 emails per hour, it is reasonable with a good SMTP server or a professional email service.
I’ve sent a campaign of over 100k emails in the past using software that allowed me to configure multiple Gmail addresses. This way, the total number of emails was divided among the total number of loaded Gmail addresses, and it sent them in a distributed manner, so the emails were sent from multiple accounts sequentially and intelligently.

 

[Algo]

Blasting emails like this 500k in one shot will not lead to any great results.

You'll need to clean your list first, segment your list by (openers/clickers...).

And finally send your offer only to your active list.

 

[clubitvn]

I dont think so it might be a good option because if any recipients would mark your email as spam then it could be blacklisted and that will be a problem in future

 

[greasyyet]

Yoour own dedicated server , ubuntu , postfix , warm up ip ( for 90% inbox ) for cost i think 300usd
much better

 

[GoodBully]

You can try using GBeast

 

[myplaysoft]

1. Get some clean ips
2. Prepare in advance a vps each time you send the 500k batch. Make sure gmail and yahoo are not spamming your individual emails.
3. Import (if not yet) your emails into your sql flavor.
4. Create a script in php (or else but php has the mail native function) that can send to db where and limit variables. This will create a sort of rudimentary segmentation on the fly. Some timeout (sleep function on php) might help.
5. The script may be adjusted to use multiple smtps via proxies.
6. Bear in mind that using cpanel or similar may prevent your messages fro being sent, if not by proxy / smtp.
7. Gmail and yahoo use complex algorithms.
8. It helps a lot to have recipient names that you dynamically inject from sql.
9. The content may be slightly diversified by using "random" function.
10. Once you have the script you will be able to reuse it.

 

[MiiaHash]

Perhaps few know this, you can use cloudflare (service called cloudflare workers) in conjunction with cloudflare emails, to send mass mailings, use cloudflare queue to perform progressive sending, you can send 500,000 emails in about 72 hours at a price of about $ 0.70 USD,

I use this system, it is really cheap, I send an average of 150.000 emails per day at a price of $0.02 USD, the domain certification, and the percentage of emails that reach the inbox will depend on your configuration, dkim and spf (among others) but it is usually close to 92%.

 

[melissaarcaro44]

It would be ideal but not necessary. However, within one week if possible.