Bulk Emailer

dove posted this at 09:30 — 21st October 2003.

Joined: Jan 2002

I'm organising a conference and want to send a personalised email to about 500 delegates (importing the info from excel).

I want to do this from work (large organisation/networked etc..).

Can anyone recommend some good bulk email software that will allow me to do this? This will be a one-off so I would prefer not to spend much, if anything.

The SMTP thang confuses me - what does this mean and how does this impact on me trying to send a bulk email from work? Will I have to reconfigure my email account? Would really prefer not to have to go near this.

Thanks for any help

iBold posted this at 20:20 — 5th November 2003.

He has: 36 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

outlook maybe?

kengreer posted this at 06:28 — 18th November 2003.

He has: 5 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

I'd recommend GroupMail Pro from www.infacta.com . Excellent product.

If you're looking for very large bulk mail, avoid their higher end "Plus" version as the bulk mailer backend just doesn't work. Instead get Advanced Mail Redirector from www.mailutilities.com . That's the combination I've been using for about a year.

But for 500-1000 e-mails the Plus version is perfect.

Anonymous posted this at 14:58 — 22nd December 2003.

They have: 5,633 posts

Joined: Jan 1970

I am using G-Lock EasyMail (http://www.glocksoft.com/em/) to send my emails out. This software generates a personalized email for each recipient and keeps the email list private and secure. I highly recommend that you try it out. Nice piece of email program.

Renegade posted this at 20:27 — 22nd December 2003.

He has: 3,022 posts

Joined: Oct 2002

A while ago when I first wanted to learn how to use databases for making websites, I came across a tutorial which tought how to use Excel spreadsheets like SQL databases, anyone here know how?
That way, dove can just run a small PHP loop to email...

BTW, as one might have guessed, I didn't read the tutorial