RE: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Sam Cayze
Issues Subject: Re: Mass emailing? For a one-time mailing? Use blat.exe - it's a nice tool that you can put in a 'for' loop, and run it against a text file with your customer emails in it. On Feb 7, 2008 10:29 AM, Steve Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're a printing company and we're facing

RE: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Roger Wright
Take a look at GroupMail Pro. The outbound message traffic can be staggered so you're not blasting constantly. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.- Winston

Re: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Durf
Unless you have a *very* sanitized mailing list and more than a T1 worth of bandwidth, I would expect sending out a mass mailing like that to have a good change of bringing down your Internet line and/or your SMTP virtual server, depending on your bandwidth and how 'clean' your mailing list is.

RE: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Sam Cayze
PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mass emailing? Unless you have a *very* sanitized mailing list and more than a T1 worth of bandwidth, I would expect sending out a mass mailing like that to have a good change of bringing down your Internet line and/or your SMTP virtual server

Re: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Kurt Buff
For a one-time mailing? Use blat.exe - it's a nice tool that you can put in a 'for' loop, and run it against a text file with your customer emails in it. On Feb 7, 2008 10:29 AM, Steve Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're a printing company and we're facing a large increase in the price of

RE: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Jason Gurtz
We're a printing company and we're facing a large increase in the price of paper, which is huge compenent of our costing. Our sales department has asked me to come up with a way to send an email to about 1000 of our biggest customers, explaining the increase and the price increases that will

Re: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Feb 7, 2008 2:49 PM, Durf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you have a *very* sanitized mailing list and more than a T1 worth of bandwidth, I would expect sending out a mass mailing like that to have a good change of bringing down your Internet line and/or your SMTP virtual server, depending

RE: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
We regularly email to around 3000 members of our organization. Normally we use MS Word to create a mail merge from an Excel spreadsheet of addresses. They all go out over our 512K pipe in about an hour or two. We consider 40k the size limit that bogs down our internet connection. But we target

RE: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mass emailing? On Feb 7, 2008 2:49 PM, Durf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you have a *very* sanitized mailing list and more than a T1 worth of bandwidth, I would expect sending out a mass mailing like

Re: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mass emailing? On Feb 7, 2008 2:49 PM, Durf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you have a *very* sanitized mailing list and more than

Re: Mass emailing?

2008-02-07 Thread Durf
Yes, when the following conditions are true:(which they usually are for our average small business client who doesn't alert us first that they want to do this) * Untuned smtp server * T1 or less bandwidth * Unsanitized contact list * 1000+ contacts ...then yes, you can very easily swamp the SMTP