That is a valid concern as you will get blacklisted by someone. It's inevitable. Even though it is an opt-in list someone will not appreciate receiving the marketing email they said they wanted. I certainly would not use the primary IP of your mail server for this.
We used to use a piece of shareware called MindCast Mailer to send bulk emails for a client on their Imail system. Worked like a charm! Not sure if you can still find that app though. It's been a long time since I've used it. Troy D. Hilton Serveon, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 302-529-8640 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Guluk > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Using Imail for e-mail marketing > > 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 > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Elliott Bujan > > Initial Tropical Plants > > voice: (847) 634 4250 ext. 99281 > > fax: (847) 634 6820 > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum% > > 40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum% > > 40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > Regards, > > > Steve Guluk > SGDesign > (949) 661-9333 > ICQ: 7230769 > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
