Wanda Clark Araujo wrote: > We're in the process of setting up with hostway. They've recommended > Mailman. > > We'd like an email marketing software to allows us to create > professional-looking, colorful HTML email newsletters, to manage email > lists (so we can upload our data lists, target or segment portions of it > and personalize), to track for receipts, opening and click thrus and to > work within our Windows-based environment.
When you say "Windows-based" do you mean your personal computer is a Win PC or that you want to install Mailman on a Windows server? Mailman is designed primarily for Linux/Unix servers. It's possible to run it on a Windows server, but it'll require some work. The FAQ (see the link at the bottom of all list messages) has more info about it. Mailman doesn't provide any tracking or click thru info, if you're using html, you can do various things in that which will provide tracking and click thru info. Mailman also doesn't provide the ability to email only a portion of the member list. You'd need to set up a separate list for each portion that you'd want to send different emails to, then (I think) you could set up an umbrella list to email all of them. Lyris is probably more what you'd want, it does provide the ability to target portions of a mailing list by a variety of data points, it also has better handling of html and scheduling of posts. But it's not free. There are list hosting services that use Lyris, NetAtlantic is one, Dundee is another. Again, not free tho. hth, texas critter -- EL-M FAQ: http://www.emaillist-managers.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/