[OPLINTECH] Advice on sending thousands of emails?

[Karen Perone]

Do you have access to mailing list software such as listserv or Mailman? 
Or do you have a library newsletter vendor like BookLetters?

The mailing list software is designed for bulk mailing and can import a 
list of addresses. BookLetters allows us to send them a list of email 
addresses to set up a newsletter (better than the one-by-one if we do it 
ourselves with their software)

In either case, your message is more likely to go through and not get 
labeled as spam. That is more likely to happen if you put all the 
addresses in the CC or BCC email field.

Good luck with the campaign!
--Karen

On 2011-04-21 2:10 PM, Phil Shirley wrote:
> We want to send email to all of the roughly 16,000 patron email address
> we have, regarding our upcoming levy election. Below is how I'm thinking
> of doing it; any suggestions or comments?
>
> I've got a file of addresses that look valid
> (something at something.something, with only text, numerals, periods,
> hyphens, underscores, plus signs, and one @ - I know there are other
> valid characters but our addresses didn't have anything else).
>
> Actually I have 16 files, with no more than 1,000 addresses each, so I
> can do a batch of 1,000 and then give the mail server some time to catch
> up if needed.
>
> I'm planning to create a script on our Linux mail server that takes
> addresses from one of these files and does something like
>
> for each $address
>      mail -s "this is the subject" $address<  message.txt
>
> I would create a special user account for this and run the script as
> that user, and then I would check that user's mail for bounces and replies.
>
> Any comments or suggestions? Thanks in advance.
>
> Phil

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Karen Perone              peroneka at oplin.org
Systems Coordinator
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