I have some subscription lists, one is about 500 people, one is about 3500. I'm starting to have trouble sending email to them using mail merge because there are many yahoo and gmail accounts on the lists, so they are starting to see the same mail going to many of their accounts, and starting to blacklist me. i don't want this to get to the point where i can't even email people that have PAID to be on my list...what can i do? my host mentioned looking into email servers/accounts, but i really know nothing about it and dont know where to start. can someone point me in the right direction?
1and1 has an email marketing tool built into the hosting. They have hosting for as little as 3.99/month and you get a free domain with that.
Search for a VPS on Google. Or check with good VPS providers like solarvps.com, powervps.com, servint.com etc. They will start from $20.00 too. But you need minimum 512 RAM for emailing etc. .
Ok i try to help... IxWebHosting provides mail services, they will give you the mail server name, it will look like mail.domain.com and they also provide the ports to connect to it. So your application will work with their hosting plans. You could send 5000 messages per month limitation per single email address, So 3500 messages is ok to send. You will be able to use this kind of mail application with them and they will be able to whitelist your email addresses on their servers and provide all necessary hostname information. If you are interested to compare terms prices discounts etc visit: http://www.webhostingyes.com/ixwebhosting-promo.html to read more information about ixwebhosting and this company might help you out. Thanks... hope this information get your job done.