[Web4lib] bulk / mass email product recommendations requested

[Ryan Eby]

I second mailman though it may be overkill for just sending a
newsletter. If your trying to send a email to a list of people then
it's fairly simple to write a script to go through a list of email
addresses and send it out. If you want more advanced feature like
allowing people to subscribe/unsubscribe there are various scripts out
there that will do that as well. Don't have any recommendations
though.

If you don't want to host it yourself I've heard good reviews of
CampaignManager. It a pay per email thing though but not too pricey
depending on what you've been looking at.

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

Ryan Eby

On 10/6/05, Mike Taylor <mike at miketaylor.org.uk> wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:46:37 -0500
> > From: "Sara Patalita" <Spatalita at acpl.lib.in.us>
> >
> > I have been tasked with choosing a product to handle bulk email for
> > one of our department's newsletters.  We tested one product but
> > didn't have good luck with their support.  I will be doing some
> > research, but I was hoping for some recommendations from libraryland
> > to help me get started.  So, please send your testimonials my way.
> > I will summarize for the list(s) if there is interest.
>
> At Index Data, we use MailMan
>         http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/
>
> With this, we run quite a lot of lists -- probably about forty, some
> of them with reasonably high volume.  We find it a pleasure to use, as
> it has a nice, and well-documented web-based admin interface.
>
> Oh, and it's free.
>