[BusMac] Mass emailer program, better than entourage?

[Dean Suhr]

I have a couple of recommendations ...

A true list management program that is rock-solid is LetterRip Pro.  It was
developed by the developers of Entourage and Claris eMailer.  It's not free
and it might offer more than you need for a periodic announcement.  There is
a free trial period. <www.letterrip.com>.  LetterRip will allow you to set
up discussion lists as well (if that is of interest).

I also use  Intellimerge from Intelli Innovations </www.intellisw.com>.
This software is designed for sending announcement style emails and allows
your to insert custom fields for greetings, personalized numbers, etc.  I
import my email address list and other information in each week for a
mailing I make to several hundred folks - you could do so with your
FileMaker database.  It sends individual emails and will handle 4,000 very
easily.

Both are OS X and might still be available in OS 9.

Dean

>on 1/22/04 16:04, Bill Morse at willym at bellatlantic.net wrote:

> Hello-
> 
> I am consulting for a non-profit, and am looking for a better solution for
> group emails than entourage.  This is not a spam operation, but rather
> communication with people who have signed up at our web-site or events.
> 
> We have a filemaker database, and often will need to send an email to about
> 4,000 addresses.  Currently this is done by creating a message in entourage
> with 4,000 BCC's.  The problem is if one address is faulty (old, changed, or
> simply mis-entered), the entire operation will come to a halt, and we don't
> know if any messages have been sent, so we have to send the entire mass
> mailing again- takes time, and worse, risks bothering some recipients with
> duplicate messages.
> 
> Is there a better way to do this, either in OSX or 9.x?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
> 
> Bill Morse
> 
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