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Hi,

I need to write a module that fetches a list of users (from a separate CRM database on a different server), then also fetches the HTML from a rendered Expression Engine template, and sends an HTML email to that list.

Is this something that can be built using expression engine’s EEmail class? The user lists will be from about 500-2000 email addresses, though should be able to handle 5000 or so for future use.

The reason I am asking before starting development is that I wonder if the mailing class is designed to handle this, or should I be looking at a third party solution for handling large amounts of email?

Alternatively, is there a way of using what is already set up for the ‘Communicate’ tab to achieve this?

Or even any other good idea about how to solve this?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

Paul, it really depends on your hosting. In many cases, EE will work just fine. But there are times when a third party solution such as aWeber or something similar makes more sense.

So the answer is .. it depends.