looking for bulk sending of email provider - any recommendations
 

Chaps

Need to look for a provider who has the ability to send bulk emails out. We will provide the address lists, and it's not spam but all addresses around the world that are subscribing to this particular mail out. Amounts to about 2500 email addys.

We have had our internet provider run it in the past which worked fine, only we had no control over the list management. We then bought it in house and while we now have complete control over the lists, the management of theme etc, our in-house email system tends to not be able to cope with such massive mailings and we get bounce backs from addresses that are perfectly legit.

Thus I think we need to pay for a provider who does nothing but send to the addresses we advise. Their infrastructure, our content and addresses.

Any recommendations?

Thanks

Andy

I've been through this before....

Do it yourself, in house, and use this Fairlogic WorldCast - Bulk Email Software

It acts as it's own SMTP server, running multiple threads when sending, so that it can send a large amount quickly and without any load on or intervention from your internal email server.

It fully manages retry attempts, should mail not get through the first time etc.

It also has subscribe/unsuibscribe functionality to allow your recipients to automatically subscribe and unsub from your lists

You can create full HTML emails with variable name fields, to include "Dear Mr Smith" etc. from database tables.

Best of all... Worldcast is free!!!!

Certainly worth looking at it, rather than paying another organisation good money to use the same application and do the same thing for you...

Enjoy

DN

I use SMTP relay service - authenticated SMTP email service, mobile / relaying denied and SMTP errors solved. from £14 per year but depends on number of messages per month....

Newsberry.com is our favoured company. Get lots of stats on emails opened/bounced/reported as spam etc as well.


R

Great link! Ive been looking at this kind of software too, but correct me if im wrong, but it looks like you have to pay? Although parts of the website say the software is free. Im confused, lol.

Depends on how you look at it...

It's free for non-commercial use, and can be used commercially for 30 days for trail. After that, in theory, registration is required - $49 USD for single user...

From the readme that appears during install:

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*** Registering ***
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This program is released as freeware for non commercial use.
The license for non commercial use is FREE. If you are using
the SOFTWARE free of charge, you are not entitled to any support
whatsoever.
For commercial use, you may use this program for 30 days free as a
trial. After that time you are expected to either register this program,
or remove it from your computer.

What registering will get you:

* Information on upgrades to WorldCast.

* A warm fuzzy feeling that you did the right thing.

* Enable a few registered-only functions.

* You'll be supporting good software & provide even more incentives to
make WorldCast an even better program.

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Fairlogic - Purchase Software

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