Large Email Mailing list . .

cat_mother_ · 10-21-2003, 12:55 PM

On one of the websites that I work with, there is a section to sign up for our monthly mailing list if you so wish. I now have about 200 people signed up for the mailing list.

I have created an html email to send out, and we would like to send out the first mailing list email two weeks from now. The problem is that I am unsure as to what the conventional or smart way of going about sending the email is. (we want to keep each person's email private from other recipients) I don't simply want to add all of the email addresses to the bcc field of an email message.

what do people normally do? I was thinking about writing a perl script with a loop that for each email in an array, to send out the email. So the perl script would end up sending 200 individual emails, that way everyone's email is private, and I don't do any copying and pasting.

Is there a better way to do this?

THANKS!!!!!

**fishfreek** · 10-21-2003, 03:26 PM

If you want to send out 1 e-mail to all recipents then make an alias and put each e-mail address in the alias list for that particular alias and then send an e-mail to yourself as the TO: field and yourself as teh FROM: field and then put the alias in the BCC: field. Recipents will get the e-mail and not see the other names since its in the BCC field.

The only other way would be to send individual messages.

Rob · 10-22-2003, 01:06 PM

http://solutionscripts.com/warehouse...st/index.shtml

I've used that script a few times, works pretty good.

Ricoool · 10-22-2003, 02:39 PM

i have used this one before, Group Mail Free, --->http://www.infacta.com/gmdifferences.asp works nice and it is free.

You can send to 100 adresses at a time, so you just have to devide your database into, textfiles, files with 100 adresse, or you get the pro ver. and you can use whatever database you have.

Quote:

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