Newsletter Mailer

[Bronson C. Elliott]

My wife has a home business (Pampered Chef) and she has a growing list of
customers who get her monthly newsletters. She use to send these
newsletters via OE by using groups. Well, I am on Comcast and they
recently imposed a limit to the number of recipients on one email. I think
it's 50 but I'm not sure. They also imposed a limit to the number of
connections one can have to their mail server in a specified period of
time. Kind of a double whammy.

I am looking for a program that she can use to generate her newsletters in
and send them once and the program would send the message to the first 50
(or however many) and then pause for a minute and send to the next 50, etc.

Group Mail Free (http://www.infacta.com/gm.asp) offers this feature but
their freeware version limits the list to 100 recipients. Her list is
about 150+.

Anyone know of a program that has the above features and is relatively easy
to use?

 

[Onno Tasler]

Anyone know of a program that has the above features and is relatively easy
to use?

I am not sure, but you could try YAMS:
http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/yams/yams.htm

bye,

Onno

 

[Mark Warner]

My wife has a home business (Pampered Chef) and she has a growing
list of customers who get her monthly newsletters. She use to send
these newsletters via OE by using groups. Well, I am on Comcast and
they recently imposed a limit to the number of recipients on one
email. I think it's 50 but I'm not sure. They also imposed a limit
to the number of connections one can have to their mail server in a
specified period of time. Kind of a double whammy.

I am looking for a program that she can use to generate her
newsletters in and send them once and the program would send the
message to the first 50 (or however many) and then pause for a minute
and send to the next 50, etc.

Group Mail Free (http://www.infacta.com/gm.asp) offers this feature
but their freeware version limits the list to 100 recipients. Her
list is about 150+.

Anyone know of a program that has the above features and is
relatively easy to use?

Probably OT, and not directly responsive to your question, but she might
consider setting up a Yahoo Group.

 

[Bronson C. Elliott]

Mark Warner wrote in

Probably OT, and not directly responsive to your question, but she might
consider setting up a Yahoo Group.

I considered that but she already has her mailing list and Yahoo makes each
person re-sign up in order to receive the newsletters.

 

[pb]

I considered that but she already has her mailing list and Yahoo makes each
person re-sign up in order to receive the newsletters.

Not so, at least presently:

"The Add Members feature allows you to automatically add members
to your group's mailing list. You can add 10 members to your
group per day. NOTE: If you want your members to have access to
the group web site, we strongly recommend that you use the Invite
Members feature.

"Please use the Add Members feature responsibly. Abuse can lead
to inactivation of your account."


pb

 

[Bronson C. Elliott]

pb wrote in

Not so, at least presently:

"The Add Members feature allows you to automatically add members
to your group's mailing list. You can add 10 members to your
group per day. NOTE: If you want your members to have access to
the group web site, we strongly recommend that you use the Invite
Members feature.

"Please use the Add Members feature responsibly. Abuse can lead
to inactivation of your account."


pb

You're right, I apologize. I'll revisit the idea of Yahoo Groups. I would
still rather have a application handle this but I may be S.O.L.

thanks...

 

[Duddits]

My wife has a home business (Pampered Chef) and she has a growing list of
customers who get her monthly newsletters. She use to send these
newsletters via OE by using groups. Well, I am on Comcast and they
recently imposed a limit to the number of recipients on one email. I think
it's 50 but I'm not sure. They also imposed a limit to the number of
connections one can have to their mail server in a specified period of
time. Kind of a double whammy.

I am looking for a program that she can use to generate her newsletters in
and send them once and the program would send the message to the first 50
(or however many) and then pause for a minute and send to the next 50, etc.

Group Mail Free (http://www.infacta.com/gm.asp) offers this feature but
their freeware version limits the list to 100 recipients. Her list is
about 150+.

Anyone know of a program that has the above features and is relatively easy
to use?

Pegasus Mail handles distribution lists from txt files. You would need to
divide the lists into 50 email addresses/text file.
http://www.pmail.com/
Not exactly what you wanted but easy enough to set up.

regards

Dud

 

[pb]

You're right, I apologize. I'll revisit the idea of Yahoo Groups. I would
still rather have a application handle this but I may be S.O.L.

NP. I only know because I just set up a group. I hadn't thought
of YG as a solution; it seems like a good one.

Hamster could undoubtedly be scripted to do what you want, but
I'd hardly call it easy - the difficulty being in the time delay.

pb