At 10:00 AM 8/22/2008, you wrote:
I've got a small local business, and twice a month we send out an
email to our customers announcing sales, specials, etc. Just to be
clear, this is in no way spam. It is 100% opt-in, and I make it
really easy for people to be removed. The only way people can
currently get on the list is to physically write their name and
email address on a sheet of paper in the store, or email us from the
account they want added. We do not offer anything other than the
information contained in the emails in return for the address (we
don't offer a discount for "members" or anything like that). We
never require an email address (or even ask for one) for any sort of
transaction. Right now, I'm managing the list by hand, but the list
has grown to around 1000 names, and It's getting laborious.
I'd like something that fits the following criteria:
1. ability to send HTML mail
2. automatically remove addresses that bounce and fit certain
criteria - i.e. remove bounced emails because the address is dead,
but not if the box is full (if the box is full for 2 months, yes)
3. eventually I'd like to put a form on the website to let people
add themselves to the list
4. I can't use listserve software, obviously, because I don't want
people being able to email the other members of the list
5. free as in beer (or at least really, really cheap)
6. free as in freedom would be nice, but I'll look at any suggestions
7. link at the bottom of the email for people to remove themselves
8. I just started using google apps (the free version), so if it
could work with that it would be great
I'm sure I'm forgetting something, so if anyone has any other
suggestions or things to look for, please let me know.
Michael Dolan
Michael,
I used DadaMail (hosted within my webhosting account), and then the
paid DadaMail Pro for my computer tips newsletter for about 10 months
before shifting to aweber.com (not free). DadaMail is free and runs
under Perl & MySQL or Perl & text files (configuration choice). It's
released under the GNU GPL.
DadaMail will allow you to control additions to the subscription
list, or make it wide open with confirmed-opt-in or
single-request-opt-in. Each email will include a customized
unsubscribe link for that subscriber.
DadaMail Pro, which is licensed for $50 per year. It includes a lot
of plugins and the manual, as well as some additional stuff. I'm not
really up to date on DadaMail and DadaMail Pro, since I shifted to
Aweber in 2006.
You can research it more at http://dadamailproject.com/ .
--
Terry Stockdale -- Baton Rouge, LA
My computer tips site and newsletter: http://www.TerrysComputerTips.com
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