Bypassing spam filters for email newsletters

[johnneumann]

My friend and I are friendly competitors in the same industry. Both of us require an email newsletter to keep our customers up to date. He's already well underway with his...I have yet to start mine.

He says that he uses an online service that "manages" his email list with auto-responders and auto-delete functions. The main feature I'm interested in is the service also scans his email blasts for red flags that would trigger spam guards. The end result is that all of our competitors emails automatically go into our spam folders, but his goes straight into my in-box. Sounds very cool, but he pays $40 a month for this service and the price goes up for each additional 5000 email addresses on the list.

Is there anything in Mac-dom that will duplicate the result of this feature without having to resort to a pricey online service?

[jonknee]

That's not exactly a pricey service (for what it does). I haven't heard of anything similar for the Mac (or Windows frankly). It's custom software owned by the company who runs the service he uses.

[258cib]

I use Max BulkMailer. Seems to work fine. You have to tune it yourself.