I run a weekly newsletter with 30,000 subscribers.... so 120,000 e-mails a month. This is a non-profit newsletter, so I don't make any money out of it. I've been running this newsletter for 5 years now, using postmastergeneral.com as the newsletter manager/server, since they are cheap and reliable. However, there standards are dropping, or they are letting their guard down, since some spammers are beginning to use their service and causing them to get blocked by some ISP's. For obvious reason, I do not want to be associated with spammers. I need to find a new solution.

I was thinking about either getting a virtual dedicated server, or pure dedicated server, and putting both my website and majordomo on it to send out the newsletter. I know web hosting companies are fine with my website, but some balk about a mailing list of that size. Do any hosts with good support for mailing lists come into mind?

Thank you for your help :)

I've hosted in the past with all three:

1) http://www.postmastergeneral.com -- extremely slick, best interface and most scalable I've seen - but pretty expensive.

2) http://www.netatlantic.com -- small shop, run Lyris List Server -- good prices.

3) http://www.dundee.net/isp/email.htm -- another small shop, run Lyris -- they host a bunch of big lists from what I understand.


From my experience, your best off going to someone who specifically does mailing list hosting. This will ensure they know how to deal with Spam complaints (because even on a double opt-in list, you'll still get them :-)

Good Luck!

Thanks for the help! You didn't exactly answer my question, but the info you gave pointed me to another solution that I didn't know about.

Basically, the company I had problems with was PostmasterGeneral. I've been with them for three years, but am now getting many user complaints that they are not receiving their mail anymore. I investigated the cause, and it's because postmastergeneral is being blocked by many ISP's!

Net Atlantic looks like an excellent solution, and at half the price I was paying to PostMasterGeneral! Thank you!