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[tacgrp]

I am looking for a free or cheap mass mail software that can do the following:

- use several email accounts to send the emails
- unsubscribe feature
- ability to import list or copy & paste of emails & first name
- in the message, the ability to use their name "ex: {first name} or something like that"

[KMyers]

Originally Posted by dallas-zoomactive

I am looking for a free or cheap mass mail software that can do the following:

- use several email accounts to send the emails

Hello,
There are several applications that can do this, and franly one can be written with about 30 lines of PHP. One feature sort of scares me however.

"- use several email accounts to send the emails"

Can you explain why this feature is needed?

[SPINIKR-RO]

Honestly its probably better to let a third party mail marketing handle bulk mail. Even if its for a legit marketing purpose.

We just went through someone trying to do this and queued 14000 emails on shared server. Luckily it was stopped =)

[Appdeveloper]

Originally Posted by HC-Ro

Honestly its probably better to let a third party mail marketing handle bulk mail. Even if its for a legit marketing purpose.

We just went through someone trying to do this and queued 14000 emails on shared server. Luckily it was stopped =)

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I never understood the point of these "email bombers". I mean, won't 99% of the emails go to spam? I know they will for Gmail.

[tacgrp]

There are ways so they don't go into the spam box. Also, gmail is not going to be used nor is my own server due to eventual black listing. Using a major isp will prevent this. If you send out 100 emails daily spread out over 10hr it won't land in the spam box most of the time. The limit is typically 250 emails. Many people send out 50 emails at once and that is where you have problems.

This is for legit marketing purposes sent to targeted business owners hand selected for a new start up im working on. All can-spam laws will be followed such as identifying it's an ad, allowing opt out requests, etc.

The problem ive found with email marketing platforms though is:

1) They have to be opted in through their system, you can't upload a list which did not request it.
2) Lack of emails you can send daily. Ideally, 100k would be sent monthly.

Thanks!