Hi,

I operate a group buying syndicate for central heating oil (www.oilconsolidation.co.uk).  I need to send out bulk email to groups of members - 1000 plus - at a time.  I have written my own set of modules to automate the buying and the syndicate management processes.

I used to send the emails synchronously behind a button click.  Very simple code using System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and  System.Net.SmptClient. This is a poor solution because it takes too long to kick a lot of emails out of the door.  I get response timeout errors beyond a few hundred emails.  I have to manually limit the set to a few hundred, and that is annoying.

I thought a few versions ago I read that DNN had acquired a bulk email background service.

I got excited when I found the DotNetNuke.Services.Mail.SendTokenizedBulkEmail class in the source code.  When I look at the code it seems to do exactly the same as my code (using MailMessage and SmtpClient), which I already know is inadequate.

Am I reading the code wrongly?  Am I looking in the wrong place?  Is there a good solution to bulk (1000 plus) emails already in DNN?  Do I need to stick with homebrew code or a third party solution?

Hi Wes,

Absolutely my thoughts.  Thank you for the pointer to the newsletter module.

I had a (wrong) impression that the sending in a background process was automatic as of some recent version.