Hello,
For building an opt-in mailing list, I'm deciding on whether to use a paid service like
www.constantcontact.com or to make my own using MySQL backend with PHP mail() on a shared host.
On one hand, those paid services allow a lot of add-ons like bounced email checking, etc. Yet, they seem less flexible for list/code manipulation, not to mention the COSTs.
I'm leaning to the paid one since I've heard a hugely looped mail() function on your own shared servers can be a bit unreliable. What do you guys think? Any experiences?
Appreciate your comments.