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Batch e-mailer for newsletters.

Version:  2.8.2

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Just fine thanks.

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Contributed by: RMFarr Saturday, January 15 2005 @ 06:41 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

Glad to find the update, I'll put it to use soon enough. I used version 1.1 for about 3 mailings to 3000 recipients each time for my bicycle club's annual fundraiser event and it worked just fine once I figured out how to avoid all the pitfalls like incorrectly formatted address lists and server problems.

Looks to be a simple program, but read the documentation, because looks are deceiving.

Let's face it. Mass emailing isn't easy. You've got to carefully craft and edit your message and set up your recipient list just so. Then you've got to have access to an SMTP server that won't automatically block your IP address after you've just sent a couple hundred emails. (Hint: Most ISPs won't allow you to send more than one or two hundred emails a day) It's not easy to find loose SMTP servers because they're usually protected from being used in this manner. They don't want their domain name blacklisted anymore than you want to receive SPAM.

Is it a SPAM tool? Is a gun a BANKROBBING tool? It all depends on how you use the tools. I guess it could be used for evil though I wouldn't think of doing so. But I'm very appreciative that it's been made available to me -- AND that it's free, which counts toward the majority of my 5 stars...   
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Just fine thanks. - RMFarr

More of an update. Version 2.1 indeed does have problems. Each time I tried to use it, it crashed after sending the first or second email on a list of 2000 or so addresses.

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Monday, April 11 2005 @ 11:24 AM PDT