Do you sacrifice one of the IPs on your machine for mass mailings in
case you get blacklisted?
We have a client that sold 1500 products via their site last year and
want to market to these and future clients. All sales will receive
their mailing and there will be an opt-out link. Future purchases
will show that they are subscribing, though they will be able to
deselect at the time of purchase. Even with these precautions against
being reported for spam I can expect that some people or even
programs that see multiple mails containing the same content will
flag the mailing as spam. I do not want to take a chance, getting our
primary IPs blocked as spam senders (blacklisted) so I am thinking
that using a unique IP that we can allow to be blacklisted without
hurting our regular mail clients. Is this a valid concern that you
have addressed in your mass mailings? I run a copy of SmarterMail
used for testing and may use that to send out the emails.
On Nov 16, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Darin Cox wrote:
There are many solutions for this, but IMail by itself is
insufficient.
Tracking click thrus would be done through a link on the website,
so that
doesn't apply to this. And tracking message views is only possible
through
embedded dynamic images that are again loaded from a script on a
website.
Note that this is not 100%, as many users may not view HTML, or may
block
images. For them nothing can be done to determine if the message was
opened. Both of these items have to do with your content and link
management on your website, so the mailing system doesn't have
anything to
do with that.
For the subscription process, the best thing to do is to use a bulk
mail
system that will personalize every message with a unique
subscription link.
This allows you to quickly and easily unsubscribe those who
complain or
report your email as spam, as well as providing quick unsubscribe
functionality to the end user.
We, and many others, have a web-based newsletter management system
that is a
subscription service that does just this, as well as allowing you
to manage
several newsletter types (welcome, standard, special offer, etc.),
schedule
newsletters, target portions of the subscription base for a
newsletters,
send currently active newsletters to new subscribers, etc.
Newsletters can
be HTML or plain text.
Darin.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliott Bujan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "imail_forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:09 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Using Imail for e-mail marketing
Has someone attempted to use Imail for marketing purposes, like mass
mailing?
Any suggestions on how to send large amounts of messages for marketing
purposes? Any programs or companies that would do this?
We would also like to track stats like how many messages were
opened, if
they visited the link on the message, unsubscribe, delete bad
addresses,
etc.
Nothing is illegal, the recipients agreed at this and they are
aware they
are / could be in a distribution list for marketing purposes.
Elliott
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