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Posted by Abdul Salam Alkaabi
Abdul Salam Alkaabi
4,871 Points

how to build auto responder mail

i need to build site that has my own auto responder mail? which programe is the best to use and how?

3 Answers

John Steer-Fowler
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John Steer-Fowler
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John Steer-Fowler
John Steer-Fowler
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Hey Abdul,

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by autoresponder mail. If you are talking about having an email account that has autoresponder on it, then that's pretty easy to do.

Once you have a domain name and hosting provider sorted you can just add an email account to your domain via your hosting provider/domain registrar

Your email hosting interface will have the option to add autoresponder to your account so that when people email you, they get an automated response.

Now, if you mean transactional emails, that's a little more complicated.

Personally I use Mailchimp for all my on-boarding emails using their awesome Automation tool. Mailchimp is fantastic for marketing emails.

I also use Mandrill for any transactional emails. From the same people who make Mailchimp, Mandrill's transactional email API is awesome and really easy to integrate into most websites.

Hope this helps a little depending on what you meant by autoresponder mail.

Abdul Salam Alkaabi
Abdul Salam Alkaabi
4,871 Points

i need to know how to build it dear

John Steer-Fowler
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points
John Steer-Fowler
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points

Then please explain what you mean by 'auto responder mail'

Abdul Salam Alkaabi
Abdul Salam Alkaabi
4,871 Points
Abdul Salam Alkaabi
Abdul Salam Alkaabi
4,871 Points

i need to build a website like mailchimp

John Steer-Fowler
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John Steer-Fowler
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John Steer-Fowler
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points

Okay, then you will need extensive knowledge of a backend language and probably a web application framework (Mailchimp uses PHP language for it's back-end). You can do something similar to Mailchimp using PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript and any of their frameworks will get you up and running.

I hope you are a good engineer. You will most likely need to build your own email infrastructure (I don't know the in's and out's of this).

I think the website is obviously the easy part. The difficult part is the infrastructure for handling the email sending in the huge quantities that company's send.

You will also have huge hosting and database costs. Mailchimp send around 100 million emails a day which uses about 3.29TB of bandwidth per day. That is estimated cost at around $169 per day just for one database. Obviously you won't be doing anywhere near this volume but I am just giving you an idea of their infrastructure.

My honest answer is I have no idea how to build an app like Mailchimp. I hope you have a lot more knowledge than I do.