any suggestions for a good mass email program?

[nervegrind3r]

hey all,

We are looking for a program that will mass email allow about 24,000 users for a client of ours. No, not dressing this up, a client that should be doing this on their own has asked us to send out these emails, and we need to pick a product, and test that it won't poop all over our network when we do it. If it matters, we were sent an excel file with all the email addresses.

anyone done this before?

any suggestions on a solid product?

any other advice would be great.

 

[Frintin]

I have used Excel files saved as text with tab delimiter option to import contacts. I think almost any mass emailer will allow this (not real sure.) the only one i ever messed around with is TurboMailer.

 

[pcgeek101]

How about a simple Powershell or VBscript?

 

[jjones]

I use MailList King. You can import from csv, which of course you can export that excel file to. It may even import directly from excel, but I'm not positive about that. You can set it so that it staggers the sendout so you're not flooding your server or getting red flags for too many e-mails going to some recipients like Yahoo, Google, etc.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: jjones
I use MailList King. You can import from csv, which of course you can export that excel file to. It may even import directly from excel, but I'm not positive about that. You can set it so that it staggers the sendout so you're not flooding your server or getting red flags for too many e-mails going to some recipients like Yahoo, Google, etc.

I've never used it for a group quite as big as 24k, but I've had great success with MLK as well. I think the most we've ever used it for is in the 10-12k range, but no problems with staggered sending. It's very easy to use, I've had no hesitation handing it off to users after a little training (and making sure they ALWAYS send a message out to test addresses before sending out a mass mailing).