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Hello all,
This may sound strange but bear with me.
I have a client that has to do a mass-mailing every three months to its clients. They would like to do a mass e-mail to their clients (of whom they have e-mail addresses for).
They are using Outlook 2007 and they don't really want to have an address book with over 10,000 e-mail addresses.
Is there any program out there that will attach to Outlook where you can keep all these e-mail addresses in so as not to overload Outlook?
Thanks,
Kelly W.
This may sound strange but bear with me.
I have a client that has to do a mass-mailing every three months to its clients. They would like to do a mass e-mail to their clients (of whom they have e-mail addresses for).
They are using Outlook 2007 and they don't really want to have an address book with over 10,000 e-mail addresses.
Is there any program out there that will attach to Outlook where you can keep all these e-mail addresses in so as not to overload Outlook?
Thanks,
Kelly W.
In my opinion they should use a proper mass email service rather than doing it on their own. They will not have to maintain the list. Also this will also make sure that their emails do not end up going in SPAM.
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a highly salable and cost effective service. You can the reliability of Amazon to go along with it.
Please review the pricing at : http://aws.amazon.com/ses/#pricing
These are nearly unbeatable. Highly Recommended.
Good Luck!
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a highly salable and cost effective service. You can the reliability of Amazon to go along with it.
Please review the pricing at : http://aws.amazon.com/ses/#pricing
These are nearly unbeatable. Highly Recommended.
Good Luck!
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I would not attempt to do this with Outlook. Thier ISP will likely block them as a spammer and they may be blacklisted. Many recipiants will never see the email b/c of this. I would use a service like Mail Chimp or Constant contact if you plan on sending out this many emails at once. This way you can track open rates, time and handle bounces better.
Microsoft makes their own addin for this type of thing. Its called Business Contact Manager. The 2007 how-to can be found via: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/business-contact-manager-help/.
This may not provide for mass email like they expect, but it'll allow them to manage their contacts as they would like. I'm with everyone else though. They are better off using something like Constant Contact.
This may not provide for mass email like they expect, but it'll allow them to manage their contacts as they would like. I'm with everyone else though. They are better off using something like Constant Contact.
I agree with the others. Doing it yourself (or theirself) is the start of an educational project you didn't intend to take. The variety of email clients makes it difficult to send anything more than plain text emails that look like you would expect. As an example, see the CSS problems shown here for various clients: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
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Thanks,
Kelly W.