Depending on the size of your contact list, you might want to check out MailChimp. I use them for a number of non-profit things I do and the service is free and works great. Much better value if you fit into their free criteria than ConstantContact. Tim
From: Daniele Bartoli [mailto:danielebart...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 3:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Legitimate Mass Emails Thanks everyone. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Kennedy, Jim <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org<mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: I haven't had to do this in a long time so I couldn't tell you who is good. CC will get you delivered, they are a solid company now...new owners. It is just one of my pet peve's that I can't let go of. I used to be a hard core frontline anti-spam guy. From: Daniele Bartoli [mailto:danielebart...@gmail.com<mailto:danielebart...@gmail.com>] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 1:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Legitimate Mass Emails Do you recommend anyone? On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Kennedy, Jim <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org<mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: So you are bulk sending emails that talk about 'accounts' and 'statements'. That is going to look like a bank phish or something similar to your typical bay's filter. Outsourcing it is still the right answer...relay it through them. Constant Contact as an example would be whitelisted at the big players. Disclaimer: I am not recommending Constant Contact, in fact I hate them as they built their business as spammers and then went legit after they were RBL'd to heck and back. From: Daniele Bartoli [mailto:danielebart...@gmail.com<mailto:danielebart...@gmail.com>] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 1:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Legitimate Mass Emails These mass emails are generally not marketing type of emails, it is generally system generated saying that their statements are generated or that they need to review their account, etc. Any ideas on this? Daniele On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Steve Hart <sh...@wrightbg.com<mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com>> wrote: We've just outsourced ours to Constant Contact. They handle all of the hassles and provide a easy interface that our marketing people can handle without involving IT at all. We typically set up new addresses in our system for responses to the emails. That allows us to filter emails any way we want. Steve Hart Network Administrator 503.491.4343 -Direct | 503.492.8160 - Fax -----Original Message----- From: Daniele Bartoli [mailto:danielebart...@gmail.com<mailto:danielebart...@gmail.com>] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Legitimate Mass Emails I am curious how others that are sending out legitimate mass emails to clients deal with protecting their companies from getting blacklisted with the various email services (Yahoo, Google, ComCast, Hotmail)? Several times we have been blacklisted from several of these services and had to work with their support to get it removed. Other times we are seeing that the mail is getting queued, however delayed. Thanks, Daniele
