email help

email list management

[Tone]

Hello,
I'm have a list of potential customers who have opted in to receive further information etc and I would like to know the best way to send the same email to the "inbox" of all the optins.
Tried the "bcc" as a test but, as you will all know, those ended up in the recipients junk mail.

If anyone can help...

Thanks

Tone

<Note - edited to remove e-mail addresses in the post.>

(edited by: engine at 5:26 pm (utc) on May 14, 2002)

[sun818]

Personalizing your outgoing e-mails will increase (positive) response rates. I suggest addressign each person individually in the "To:" field. There is no reason to use BCC anymore. You can find free web scripts or desktop programs that can manage this for you. The trick I find is to make your e-mails look non-automated. I had an e-mail yesterday that said: Dear JOHN DOE. Inappropriate CAPS or FirstLast in a salutation is a dead giveaway.

[Filipe]

I wrote an emailing script 2 years ago that would send out personalized emails to folks who had opted-in. Depending on what information you have available to you, and what kind of scripting technology you can implement, you can make pretty sophisticated pseudo-personal emails.

Sticky me if you need more details.

[rogerd]

I've used Aureate Group Mail (free, but is scumware - run Adaware to strip spyware features) with good results. I wouldn't use it (at least the free version) for more than 10,000 names. Individual addressing takes a while, but if you start it before you leave your machine it is pretty reliable.

Post Office Pro is fairly cheap, and offers web based subscribe/unsubscribe features.

The class act seems to be Lyris list manager - I'm about to implement that on a site. Very feature-rich, but also relatively complex.

[txbakers]

I like the Mercur mail server. a Free download and a very reasonable cost after that.

It can handle multiple mailing lists and listserv commands.

[richlowe]

I use lyris (at talklist) and it's been very good. I like the lyris software, although it is a bit pricey and very complex.

Richard Lowe

[Tone]

Thanks everyone for your input. Have used "Rogered" advice.

Thanks again.

Tone