on 2012-09-19 9:48 Andrew Brown wrote
I need to send out a good number of messages, sometimes a few thousand at a time, and have been using Mailings (http://www.limit-point.com) but it throws away accented characters in a random way.
you don't say enough for me to know exactly what problems you are seeing and whether it is just some or all recipients, but my first take is it sounds like Mailings is using the wrong text-encoding; you could determine this by examining the Content-type headers of emails sent by Mailings (or if the messages are multi-part, each part may have a Content-type just below its Boundary)
i prefer UTF-8, which works for all the email systems i use; i don't for a fact know that all recipients can handle UTF-8, but i do know that emails coming from MailChimp (one of the best-known direct email tools, which i've helped people set up for their businesses) use UTF-8 by default, which is a pretty good indication that it works for most recipients
Does anyone know of a reliable program for mailings?
i can't recommend any desktop software; most small businesses use an online service for this sort of thing, because those services are much better at managing the spam risks than your average ISP; i have seen people use MailChimp successfully, though i would shop around before choosing a service for my own use; if your mailings are more like a mailing list in nature i'd consider mailman, or Google Groups
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