If you are on a Mac you could give Direct Mail a try. http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/index.php
I've bought the Pro version and have been using it to manage lists with more than 20,000 subscribers for several years to send monthly newsletters. I like the fact that it can connect directly to your database server, meaning you can run simple queries inside the tool. It also handles the usual tasks like mail merge, bounces and reporting. It may not be the best tool on the market but as far as value for money goes I'm very happy as managing large lists can be quite costly using hosted services (which btw Direct Mail also offers - you can have them send your emails). Regards, Stefan On 22 Jul 2011, at 03:18, Matt Quackenbush wrote: > > I have no experience with MailChimp or ExactTarget, but I bought a copy of > Admin Pro Tools Mail List Manager a number of years back. It was a complete > waste of money (we ran it for about 1 week), and their support was > non-existent. I would certainly steer well clear of that. > > /.02 > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Jason Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> If you're doing large volumes, I recommend ExactTarget. CF can't >> actually manage things like bounce-backs, since that's all on the email >> server-side. You could write all those hooks yourself, if your email >> server allows you to embed applications, but it's more efficient to let >> the pro's handle it for you, at least in my experience. Subscriptions >> you can certainly do with CF, but you can just as easily have your CF >> subscription system write back to ExactTarget when necessary, so they're >> not exclusive, depending on your needs. >> >> >> On 7/21/2011 5:05 PM, Russ Michaels wrote: >>> You really should look outside the coldfusion box on this one. >>> take a look at www.mailchimp.com >>> It is free for lists up to 500 users. >>> It has an API and is pretty easy to integrate with and also has a >>> Gmail/Google Apps plugin. >>> >>> I'm sure many others will back me up on how good Mailchimp is. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Russ Michaels >>> >>> www.bluethunderinternet.com : Business hosting services& solutions >>> www.cfmldeveloper.com : ColdFusion developer community >>> www.michaels.me.uk : my blog >>> www.cfsearch.com : ColdFusion search engine >>> ** >>> *skype me* : russmichaels >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346303 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
