MaxBulkMailer works fine for me, using a mailing list of 450 or so addresses for a quarterly newsletter. When you get MBM you also get a couple of extra tools, an email verifier and a bounce handler, which saves much of the manual work.
MBM also allows you to set the number of connections and how many emails are sent at once, to avoid the spam issue. It's certainly faster than sending one at a time, and way cheaper than a mail house. Just my two bob's worth . . . Graham B >>MaxBulkMailer >><http://www.maxprog.com> >>may be the perfect tool for your task. > >I've tried BulkMailer as well, does not really address the names >properly (recognizing first and last names as provided by PowerMail). >For me, this has not been the real problem as much as the big ISPs >blackmailing mails that are sent in large numbers, regardless of whether >you are welcomed by the sender or not; send out bulk emails, you are a >SPAMMER. If you want to build and maintain a viable business email >solution, you'll eventually have to go through a third party email >marketing company such as Vertical Response, with viable opt-in and opt- >out features. > >Although I have many thousands of addressees collected over the years, I >have found PowerMail severely lacking in helping the needs of serious >businesses who want to create and maintain an email marketing tool. >Requests to make the deletion of "dead" addresses easily and >systematically have gone unanswered, so I KNOW the next time I send out >a bulk email (MaxBulkMailer or not) I will have to hand-pick and delete >literally hundreds and hundreds of dead addresses, one by one. Do >yourself a favor (if this is the direction you're going), make the >transition as soon as you can, possibly separating a business address >from one you use for more personal communications. Something I wish I >had done years ago. > >Hope this helps, I know I will eventually have to break away from PM, I >just loath the idea of the amount of work involved. > >Regards... > >-- >Steve's Authentic, Inc. >204 Van Dyke Street >Pier 41, Red Hook >Brooklyn, NY 11231 > >Telephone: 718-858-5333 >Outside NYC: 888-450-5463 >FAX: 718-858-4345 > >www.keylime.com >www.stevesauthentic.com > >
