Need Some Help Regarding My Email Marketing Journey

dimitrivisser said:

Nooooo ;-)

We are here to learn.

Imagine a Wordpress website with an opt-in form. That form has to communicate with marketing software to pass on the email address of the new subscriber. The marketing software will use Amazon SES or Mailgun to send the emails.

On Linux I would install ISPconfig as webadmin software + marketing software like Mautic or Mailwizz. The VPS would be $5 a month. ISPconfig is free, Mautic is free, Mailwiz depends on if you are willing to use a copy or want an official version.

How would you do that on Windows? I know of software used for sending mailings from a Windows desktop. But the software I know would not be able to automatically receive the email addresses of new subscribers from a Wordpress website.

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Again, i would use windows to host my scraping, email verification and mailing software. As far as hosting the landing page and email database, i would do that on Linux or at the very least a totally different host. You could use the email body to record opens and whatnot. You could even have a clickable link that injects the email of the recipient and stores it when clicked. idk, there has got to be millions of ways to do it.

In any effect i personally would never mail off of the server i'm hosting off of for several reasons. I

security said:

Again, i would use windows to host my scraping, email verification and mailing software. As far as hosting the landing page and email database, i would do that on Linux or at the very least a totally different host. You could use the email body to record opens and whatnot. You could even have a clickable link that injects the email of the recipient and stores it when clicked. idk, there has got to be millions of ways to do it.

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Yes. But how would you get the email address given by the user on the Wordpress website into the email marketing software on the Windows server automatically? I understand what you say, and I know what you can do on a Windows server. But not how to pass the email address. I don't need millions of ways, just 1 is enough...

In any effect i personally would never mail off of the server i'm hosting off of for several reasons. I

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In my example you have webhosting, a different server/vps for the marketing software and the actual sending is done by Mailgun or Amazon. It's all separated.

dimitrivisser said:

Yes. But how would you get the email address given by the user on the Wordpress website into the email marketing software on the Windows server automatically? I understand what you say, and I know what you can do on a Windows server. But not how to pass the email address. I don't need millions of ways, just 1 is enough...

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One example would be to have the list stored in a text file in a FTP directory, have the mailer grab the list from there. Again, that is just one but i could think of 10 easy solutions to that issue. On another note, especially for such a small mailing i don't see loading up the email being that much of an issue. I

One other thing tho, i would not require the lists to be put in the mailer from wordpress. Once i verified my lists they could safely be mailed from the host. Once my list is optimized / optin, i can then set up a more set and forget method since i know there wont be any complaints that will shut it all down.

dimitrivisser said:

In my example you have webhosting, a different server/vps for the marketing software and the actual sending is done by Mailgun or Amazon. It's all separated.

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Yes, Amazon is sending the mail, but your host is passing it off. The ip you are sending mail to amazon will will also be in the header. It can still be RBLed and amazon themselves can block it for abuse. The mailing servers are always the first to go down. Host are always last. You can always claim you are being "Joe jobbed" but not if they can prove the mail started from the host.

I used mailgun to send emails. Keep in mind sometimes it has some problems delivering to yahoo.