Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi Folks. I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients on this list. Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS Outlook which he maintains

VERP and Exim sender_verify - was Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks I haven't re-invented the wheel but have borrowed someone else's. I'm managed to do all of the functionality within EXIM and have even managed to manage the subscription list from our CRM :-) I basically have /etc/aliases.d/list.listname which is used to inform EXIM (a) that the

Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Folks. I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients on this list. Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS Outlook which he maintains himself. He then sends

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Jack Craig
sounds like a perfect perl app, have you posted to odesk.com? just a thought, .. On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Gary Stainburn gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk wrote: Hi Folks. I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution that has been running for some time

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Jack Before I put finger to keyboard I thought I would ask to see if there was already something out there. If not, I'll knock something up. Gary On Monday 20 May 2013 16:40:06 Jack Craig wrote: sounds like a perfect perl app, have you posted to odesk.com? just a thought, .. On Mon,

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Michael Parker
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 04:31:18PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi Folks. I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients on this list. Up until now he has simply had a

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
It's likely a bit overkill for what you're after, but mailman: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/ should be able to meet your needs. I believe that the default configuration sends a single message to a group, but it can be configured to generate/deliver individual messages (which can

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Jack Craig
good luck! On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Gary Stainburn gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk wrote: Hi Jack Before I put finger to keyboard I thought I would ask to see if there was already something out there. If not, I'll knock something up. Gary On Monday 20 May 2013 16:40:06 Jack

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 17:03:14 +0100, Gary Stainburn gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk wrote: I have thought about Mailman as I've used it before for my charity work. However, I do think that as you say, it sends emails as groups to addresses with the same MX records which will not resolve my

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Gary Stainburn gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk: Hi Folks. I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients on this list. Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 20 May 2013, Gary Stainburn sent: I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients on this list. Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Jonathan Allen
John Aldrich wrote: Simple ... use a service such as Constant Contact ... If I may humbly say so, that's not a great idea. Many, many spam recipes on a wide range of platforms automatically drop anything from Constant Contact in the spam bucket without a second look. Jonathan

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 20 May 2013 08:40:06 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: sounds like a perfect perl app, have you posted to odesk.com? Perl? Perhaps working on this package review might be an idea then: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/705382 -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) - Linux 3.9.2-301.fc19.x86_64

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread Michael Parker
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 05:03:14PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: It's likely a bit overkill for what you're after, but mailman: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/ should be able to meet your needs. I believe that the default configuration sends a single message to a group, but