I have 20,000 legitimately gained emails in my database in a column of a table, how do i get that into an emailer? Once again, all the emails were given willingly, by members of my site
It's not about bandwidth or space on your server. Sending so many emails will use a lot of cpu on your server machine. I suggest you should ask them first
I think the poster is asking how to export out the addresses and import them into a mailer. I don't recall seeing anything about what type of hosting they need. What hosting platform are you using? ie CPanel, Direct Admin, etc. Within that platform, are any mailers available to be used? Did your host have any suggestions? Have to admit I would clear it with them first as well. Also many hosts have limits in place on how many emails you can send at one time or within a certain time period. That's a concern.
You can get them out of the db in CPANEL - my sql Admin select 'COLUMN' FROM 'TABLE' export to csv or excel or whatever. I can send 20000 on one of my shared hosts, but it would take about 32 hours. My system reads direct from DB, so no exporting is required
The best way is import it into 3rd part auto responder such as aweber. Then you can easily sent using aweber. Sending via hosting is no recommended due to many downside such as IP blacklist.