bogan said:
We are a small business and looking for a program for sending e-mail
blasts
to our cutomer base. Can the outlook program support this or does
anyone no
of a good software program for this?
With a large number of recipients per message, you'll probably hit your
ISP's anti-spam quota regarding maximum recipients per message. You
could use Word's MailMerge to send each message out individually. That
will take more time and suck up more CPU cycles to send another copy to
each recipient (and definitely fill up your Sent Items folder).
However, you may still hit your ISP's anti-spam quota of how many mail
sessions they permit per minute. You could also hit your ISP's
anti-spam quota on maximum bandwidth per day if you send lots of copies
of a large message (i.e., the aggregate byte size of all those messages
exceeds your alloted megabyte/day bandwidth). You could ask your ISP
what are the anti-spam quotas for e-mail but often they won't reveal
them in the stupidly blind hope that spammers can't discover them.
I've heard of MailCast but never used it. You can find some other bulk
mail solutions mentioned at
http://www.slipstick.com. You could also
Google for bulk mailing services where you send your message and a list
of recipients and they do the bulk mailing for you. Don't try using an
e-mail client as a server. That results in hitting anti-spam quotas and
unreliable operation. Outlook is a client, not a server.
