Decent Bulk Mail Solution?

We send out invitations for our Chautauqua seminars on a montly basis to about 500 people or so now. More and more mail servers are starting to quarantine or reject the messages out of turn now because they get identified as "bulk mail".

I've been asked to find a solution that will automatically send the emails to each addressee individually as opposed to just sending one email to all 500 addressees.

Just another example of how spammers make it hard to use email for legitimate business.

Anyhow if anyone out there knows of any products that do this, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Comments

[Mike Abrahamson]

We use Outlook's Mail Merge capability to do this. We send out a weekly e-newsletter to about 1800 contacts. Each person gets an individual message. What's nice is we could include merge fields to personalize the message, too. You can find it under the Tools menu in Outlook. Very slick and easy to use. You just select all your recipients in a contacts folder and click Tools>Mail Merge, then follow the options (choose a template, which merge fields to make available, etc.). We use custom views in Outlook to identify a group of recipients and then sort by the e-mail address field, then highlight all recipients that have an address.

[Gary Slinger]

Lyris ListManager - www.lyris.com. You'll be able to get away with the cheapest version too, I believe.

G.

[Justin]

http://www.arialsoftware.com/

[Alex]

emill is worth a look - thanks for your backupexec uninstall log very helpful

[Jumber]

I use a program called 'groupmail' by Infacta. Handles bulk or merged email, bounce handler, etc. There's a free one with limitations.