Re: Email Management Software

2011-07-22 Thread Stefan Richter
If you are on a Mac you could give Direct Mail a try. http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/index.php I've bought the Pro version and have been using it to manage lists with more than 20,000 subscribers for several years to send monthly newsletters. I like the fact that it can connect directly

Re: Email Management Software

2011-07-22 Thread Larry Lyons
+100 for mailchimp. Its very good at what it does, very flexible and most importantly very flexible. I've used it to manage email campaigns that have gone out to 10,000+ recipients. There's also a pretty sweet CFC wrapper for the MailChimp API, http://mailchimp.riaforge.org/ hth, larry You

RE: Email Management Software

2011-07-22 Thread UXB
What does everybody else do or any recommendations? We use a product called Mailxpert http://www.xtreeme.com/mailxpert/ for both discussion and broadcast lists. It's primary feature was that it was very inexpensive $125.00 US but has proven to be fairly robust. It is configurable but is not

Re: Email Management Software

2011-07-22 Thread Russ Michaels
If you want to keep it all in-house then try www.phplist.com, this is a very robust host it yourself bulk mailing solution. I do not know of anything built in CF that comes close. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:01 PM, UXB denn...@uxbinternet.com wrote: What does everybody else do or any

Re: Email Management Software

2011-07-21 Thread Russ Michaels
You really should look outside the coldfusion box on this one. take a look at www.mailchimp.com It is free for lists up to 500 users. It has an API and is pretty easy to integrate with and also has a Gmail/Google Apps plugin. I'm sure many others will back me up on how good Mailchimp is. --

Re: Email Management Software

2011-07-21 Thread Jason Fisher
If you're doing large volumes, I recommend ExactTarget. CF can't actually manage things like bounce-backs, since that's all on the email server-side. You could write all those hooks yourself, if your email server allows you to embed applications, but it's more efficient to let the pro's

Re: Email Management Software

2011-07-21 Thread Matt Quackenbush
I have no experience with MailChimp or ExactTarget, but I bought a copy of Admin Pro Tools Mail List Manager a number of years back. It was a complete waste of money (we ran it for about 1 week), and their support was non-existent. I would certainly steer well clear of that. /.02 On Thu, Jul