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RVJimofOregon's avatar
Mar 07, 2016

Need mas mailing email help

I mail out a non-profit newsletter as a PDF file each month to 450 members which will grow to maybe 700 in the next 6 months.
I am using Gmail but they have limits like a maximum of 500 mailing per day and only 50 (some say 100) per time. While this works I am looking for a better, quicker way.
It would be nice to have a data base maybe in excel with the names, email and additional information that we could use for other reasons. If I could import the email address monthly and send it out at one time it would be nice.
All this and have to watch the budget as it is a non-profit.
Any ideas would be helpful. I would like to use my gmail account but I could change.
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  • rwbradley wrote:
    There are 2 components to mass mailing. One is what you can send, and the other is what can I receive. Just because you find a service that will allow you to have more recipients does not mean the recipients mail service will respect that. Spam filters are very complex and have hundreds of weighted factors. One of the biggest factors that goes toward a high spam score is the number of recipients. From my experience, any single email with around 100 or more recipients will be marked as spam by the majority of receiving mail systems. Another big factor is the number of email with high spam scores coming from a single address or mail server in a short period of time. The point is that if you add more recipients or more email messages you are more likely to be rejected by the recipients mail service or end up in their spam folder. Mass email is also no longer considered politically correct and in fact Canada went so far as to make it illegal unless you can prove your recipient has chosen to opt in.

    I am with GordonThree. Post it in a Wordpress blog and have people who want email notification to subscribe to the blog, then they will get an email with a link to your post/newsletter whenever you post something new.

    All of our members have requested to receive the newsletter.
  • Bummer. I use SerialMailer, but it's a Mac program. It lets you import addresses, compose email and use attachments, but it also can schedule X amount of emails then pause for X amount of time.

    I usually do 3 emails then wait 3 seconds. Since I started doing that I've had no more blacklist problems.

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