Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing

date posted 12th January 2006 09:38

I'd strongly suggest you look at the following 2 sites which will=20
answer all your questions and solve your problems!

http://www.mailchimp.com/ &
http://search.constantcontact.com/index.jsp:

Those will enable you to host the pictures on their servers so they are=20=

not emebded and get throught the firewalls and spam filters etc - also=20=

you'll be able to view hits/views and send follow ups. Will work=20
equally well for 50 to 5,000 although I should say I havent used them=20
personally yet

good luck

Matt
Creative Director
www.Design-United-Digital.com

On 12 Jan 2006, at 09:57, Julie Hatton (Design Training) wrote:


BCC is not a good idea as the recipients e-mail address doesn't appear=20=

in
the TO address field of the e-mail.
Looks like spam !

Unfortunatly I can't recomend a way of doing this, I have been looking=20=

at
email management software for myself.
I did look at something called 'MailList Controller', which was free=20
for the
basic version, but you had to buy it if you wanted a version with=20
multiple
mailing lists.
I haven't used it yet - still trying to work out how to use it !

Julie



----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Cartmell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing



> I then grouped these into several groups - however the format of many
> emails
> was incorrect - so the message could not be sent until they had all=20
> been
> actioned

Send the e-mail to yourself and BCC: the message to all the database
addresses (which you should do anyway, so you don't send everyone's=20
e-mail
address to everyone else. Valid ones will go, the rest will bounce with
error messages. Then at least you only have to deal with the invalid=20
ones.

A more complex solution would be to check each address for validity,=20
first
looking at the format of the string, and then, ideally, also attempting=20=

to
send to each address. There are free PHP scripts available to do this.

I could put together a simple web-based solution to validate a list of
addresses for ~=C2=A3100 if that would be of interest. Paste the list =
into a
web form, press the go button, and get a lists of valid and invalid ones
back.

Cheers!

Anthony
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