Take a look at mailgun.net and their concept of mailing lists. It's an enterprise quality service, affordable, and easy to setup/use.
thanks, David On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Joe Castleman <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > Howdy, > > I flagged this as off-topic since it really isn't a Remedy question per > se, though it does involve a Remedy system. > > We need to send different kinds of notifications from ARS to various > distribution lists. We would rather not build up these lists within ARS > (mainly because many of the recipients don't have Remedy access; also so I > won't have to be the one maintaining the distribution groups; and finally > so ARS would only have to send one message to 1-5 recipients instead of > 487). So we were thinking about setting up a separate server running > Mailman, Listserv or similar, and maintain the distribution lists on that > platform. > > However, management said, "why worry ourselves with more infrastructure?" > and suggested looking into a commercial distribution service. For example, > when Pottery Barn/Gap/whatever sends out a weekly marketing email, at the > end of the email it says "Powered by MegaSpammer" or some such. Trouble > is, these seem tailored to sending out feature-laden emails (as opposed to > the plain text we need to send out), and to one particular distribution > list. > > So, I'm back to looking for something like Mailman or Listserv, but paying > someone else to take care of it (all we'd have to do is configure our > mailing lists and send our messages). Can anyone recommend something like > this? (Alternately we're thinking of getting a virtual server on the cloud > somewhere like AWS, then installing Mailman on it, but then we'd still be > on the hook for maintaining Mailman, and management prefers that we > wouldn't even have to do that.) > > I wouldn't be surprised if I've overlooked something really obvious, but > so far all I'm finding are the "Powered by SpamRockets" with the fancy HTML > templates etc. > > Thanks, > > I'm Joe Castleman > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ -- *David A. Ferguson *Yurbi® - Bring Your Data to Life <http://www.yurbi.com>* * Work: 571-354-0515 Fax: 702-974-2704 Email: [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/davferg http://www.twitter.com/davferg5000 5000fish, Inc. <http://www.5kfish.com> 2850 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway Suite 200 Henderson, NV 89052 <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davferg> _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
