Sending bulk email? Software is killing me

Discussion in 'Services' started by joch21, Nov 21, 2005.

  1. #1
    I have a very large list of double opt in email addresses (not spam!) that I am trying to send an email to. Currently these email addresses are in 3 seperate text files. One is 700,000 one is 500,000 and one is 5 million email addresses. They are one address per line. I have them loaded into Mozilla Thunderbird but it keeps choking on them, Im guessing its just too much for it to handle.

    This is a very important newsletter for my ecomerce website that is time sensative so I need a better piece of software or a service that will let me upload my list and let me send the mail that way.

    I am shooting them through my own mail server and they are all 100% non spam. Does anyone have any ideas?
     
    joch21, Nov 21, 2005 IP
  2. mystikmedia

    mystikmedia Jedi Master

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    #2
    Check out Group Mail from www.infacta.com. It works very well. That's what I use. I also have my emails in a plan text file one per line, and it can import thousands in seconds. Great program.
     
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  3. joch21

    joch21 Well-Known Member

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    #3

    That looks like exactly like what I am looking for. So I can just point it to my text files and it will suck all the addresses up? How long does it take to send emails? Something basic, just a few paragraphs of text.

    Did you buy the personal or business version? Thanks for the tip!
     
    joch21, Nov 21, 2005 IP
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    get a linux box or run cygwin on windows and I can whip you up something in perl that will email 20k+ a hour no sweat...
     
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  5. mystikmedia

    mystikmedia Jedi Master

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    Yes, exactly. I have the Business version. It has an option for high-speed sending.
     
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    joch21 Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the offer shoe, but I think I will go with this. Do you know how much faster the business version is? I dont know if I should get it or not.
     
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    mystikmedia Jedi Master

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    try PHPList, it's open source (free) and will run on most shared hosts
     
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    Hi,

    Can you try mail merge in word or mach5 mailer bulk mailer software. Both will help you a lot :)
     
    newonlineinfo, Jul 13, 2006 IP