[Wylug-help] Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

[James Holden]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:13:44PM +0100, Lee Evans wrote:
> I'd say why reinvent the wheel
> 
> www.mailchimp.com is great, easy to use, good business intelligence analytics, list, bounce and unsub management - and free to start with at the volumes you're talking about.

^^ Lee is correct with this.

Roll-your-own solutions are fun, but Mailchimp has relationships with the major
email providers to make sure their mail gets delivered in exchange for being a
responsible mass mailer.

DIY systems are quite likely to end up tripping rate-based anti-spam measures
or getting black-listed if too many people flag the mails as spam.

The analytics stuff is incredibly useful too.

James

> 
> Lee
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Gary Stainburn" <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk>
> To: <wylug-help at wylug.org.uk>
> Subject: [Wylug-help] Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed
> Date: Mon, May 20, 2013 16:33
> 
> 
> Hi Folks.
> 
> I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution 
> that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients 
> on this list.
> 
> Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS Outlook which he 
> maintains himself. He then sends himself an email every week containing the 
> stock list and BCC's the distribution list.  Other than generating an 
> excessive load on my EXIM server there has been no  real down side to this as 
> it meant that I didn't have to get involved.
> 
> However, we are now experiencing problems and I would like a better solution.
> 
> I need a system that will distribute the email to each recipient as a seperate 
> message, and if possible will monitor and highlight any emails that fail.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way of doing this? Ideally I would like the salesman to 
> still be able to administer it but that isn't essential. If it is a system 
> that is either text file or database driven  I can create a UI that he would 
> be able to use.
> 
> Gary
> 
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