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What is an alternative to Feedburner or Feedblitz to send out emails that does NOT require an activiation email to be sent

Asked by: Arbuckle2

I have an email list of people that have opted in to receive email alerts from my company. I'd like to automatically subscribe them to our blog so that they get emailed all our blog posts. My problems is that  botht Feedburner and Feedblitz (the current services i've looked at) both require an activation email to be sent to new subscribers. My list has already opted-in and receiving an activiation email would be a major inconvenience.

Please help! I need a service that can:
1) Turn an RSS feed into an email
2) Mail to people without requiring an activation email

I'm under deadline. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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by: Ray_PaseurPosted on 2009-03-18 at 06:15:31ID: 23918273

I've been wrestling with this question for a while now, not really knowing what to say.  Maybe if you give us a little more information we could find a workable solution.

What would happen if you re-envisioned the question like this... I want to send a broadcast email and also add the outgoing message to my blog post.

Another way of looking at this would be to reconsider the notion that "an activation email would be a major inconvenience."  Personally, I would not have ANY problem with an activation email, especially if I got a prefatory message from a well-respected company notifying me of the new service and highlighting the advantage.  And if I didn't want every blog post, well, that would be my prerogative.

Can you tell us a little more about the situation?  Thanks, ~Ray

 

by: BMilneSLOPosted on 2009-03-18 at 10:19:50ID: 23921118

I'm not sure you're going to be able to find a free feed mailer service that allows you to import e-mail addresses without sending out confirmation e-mails. That's their way of avoiding the "spam" label, not to mention get their name/logo on that initial e-mail and spread the word about their RSS-to-e-mail service.
Have you considered a pay service? I'm not sure if Nourish sends out a confirmation e-mail, but it touts that "managing a large list of subscribers is effortless" with their newsletter campaigns.

http://nouri.sh/

 

by: gwkgPosted on 2009-03-18 at 12:31:57ID: 23922675

You can send the mail yourself if you know php.

<?php

$rss_feed = file_get_contents('http://example1.com/feed.rss');

mail('user@example2.com', 'RSS Feed from Example1.com', $rss_feed,
'Content-Type: application/rss+xml');

?>

 

by: singletonPosted on 2009-03-24 at 10:06:05ID: 23970655

Actually if you have these subscribers email addresses you can just send the emails out yourself.

And if you want the email to look like what Feedburner and Feedblitz send, subscribe to them yourself, answer the confirmation email, then do your post, and when Feedburner and Feedblitz notifies you the post is there, just forward it to a "group" you built in your email program

 

by: Arbuckle2Posted on 2009-03-29 at 17:12:08ID: 31559389

Not what I had in mind as the ideal solution but very smart singleton. Thanks!

 

by: singletonPosted on 2009-03-29 at 17:37:29ID: 24015294

I understand, but if there is not a service to do what you want, you think outside the box and improvise

 

by: Arbuckle2Posted on 2009-03-29 at 17:40:04ID: 24015306

Very true. Thanks.

 

by: Ray_PaseurPosted on 2009-03-30 at 06:15:56ID: 24018510

Don't know how many email messages you are thinking of sending, but you might want to be absolutely certain about the headers in those messages.  This is an area that can potentially get you into trouble as a spammer.  Tread carefully.  That's why I was hoping to get you to recast the question - there are legal implications of what you may be about to do.

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