how to send the same mail to multiple people?

[abracadabra]

how to do i send mail to more than say 500 people on my mailing list; mainly my school x students. it was for a reunion. i have already messed up with the mail. help..... it always goes as bulk mail or spam and that it doesnt allow you to send to more than 50 at one time. sometimes error messages come that you cannot send anymore on that particular day. all the mail addresses that i make use are perfectly working. are there any alternative to mail people and send a sucessful delivery of the message. please note the mail message also contains a picture of the card. i also wanna know that whether can i use any third party freewares. also that if it makes use "smtp" protocol it again make mail sending task harder.

 

[nweaver]

perl...

write a script to log into the smtp server, loop through a list of names, sending an email to each user.

btw, this is MUCH more S/W then OS

 

[kamper]

You're going to have to explain your mail setup a little better, like what client you're using and who's providing your smtp server. Someone's obviously got measures in place to prevent you from spamming.

Yeah, or write something of your own (if it doesn't catch that as well). Writing a spam machine is so easy

 

[Markbnj]

Yeah, too many different ways to cover them all with so little information provided. You want to send the same email to multiple people? Use Outlook and paste their names into the bcc: field in the addresses dialog. Any more specific recommendation would require knowing what kind of communication you're sending and to how many people.

Of course, if you reply "It's an ad," and "hundreds of thousands," then you can go screw yourself .

 

[abracadabra]

can you tell me more specifically how to go about with perl for sending message to multiple people and that i use yahoo mail or gmail so; can i make use of their smtp servers. there is one more problem is that if you send too many mails the virtual port 25 gets blocked seeming to consider that we are spamming other people. also i am well aware of the fact that gmail doesn't use smtp protocol. any other alternatives help............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: abracadabra
can you tell me more specifically how to go about with perl for sending message to multiple people and that i use yahoo mail or gmail so; can i make use of their smtp servers. there is one more problem is that if you send too many mails the virtual port 25 gets blocked seeming to consider that we are spamming other people. also i am well aware of the fact that gmail doesn't use smtp protocol. any other alternatives help............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you sure gmail doesn't use smtp?

And I'm gonna guess that if you can't send mass emails using a normal end user client, the same spam measures are going to be put in place for any scripts that you write. What you'll have to do is find an smtp server that won't limit you in this way.

 

[nweaver]

use a list of email addresses, get the meassage body, write the perl script, at the end of the loop, put a sleep 250 in. At least then it's automated and you can start it and walk away for a few hours. Search in the software forum, I have posted examples of perl smtp scripts in there. These were non auth smtp servers, so ymmv