Drupal: sending 1500 emails monthly

I need to enable a mailing list on a website and I was considering to use Simplenews module for it.

I have to send approximately 1500 e-mails per month. I was considering if it i开发者_运维技巧s a huge emails amount for drupal and simplenews module and I should use another service, or not.

thanks

Edit II: The Edit Wars - I've just read what SimpleNews provides and see that it is a newsletter sender. Skip the next edit and go straight onto the last block.

Edit: The Phantom Edit - My answer is in the understanding that by mailing list, you meant newsletter. I see now that you could just mean a forum-by-email (like many open source projects operate, for example).

If it's the second, you're probably fine just sending it yourself. Sending a couple of dozen emails to each user at once isn't going to kill your box and hopefully won't get you labelled as a spammer.

If it's the first and you're sending 1500 emails at once for marketing interest, read on.

I would always argue for a third party service for mailing list - especially if your make money from people actioning these emails.

Why? Because it's so easy to get blocked as a spammer (even for legitimate emails) if you send enough email. By using a third party, it's their job to deal with making sure your IP (with them) remain's unblocked and trusted by all the major players in the spam-scanning world.

It certainly costs more than doing it yourself but with a lowish volume like 1.5k/month, you're probably not looking at that much money.

I use iContact for a client and they've been just great. They have fairly detailed reporting as well (so do lots of email companies) which their marketing bods love. Would cost you $25/month for your volumes.

1500 emails is not that many (assuming you meen total emails, not emails which are then sent to 100,000 users), simplenews looks like it is activly maintained and has a large userbase, so shouldn't be a problem.

Just as an asside, SO is probably not the best place to ask for module reviews try using drupal modules if you would like oppinions of modules.

1500 is well within the range of what Drupal can handle.