Re: FN-FORUM Mailshots

date posted 13th January 2001 13:49

There are programmes around that do this sort of thing - although remember
that many ISPs forbid sending bulk emails - spamming!

I don't know of any way of doing it - apart from what you have suggested
already. Search the net for 'bilk email programmes' - you should find
some - freeware or shareware things that do it.

Sorry I can't be more help.

cheers,

Andrew
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> I have a requirement to send out a mailshot to a large number of e-mail
> addresses, but I'm not sure of the best and quickest method of doing this.
>
> The email addresses will be gathered from various sources, probably being
> pasted into a Word document (but it doesn't have to be a Word document).
>
> Then I will want to send a standard e-mail to each of these addresses.
> Ideally the email will show only the email address of the recipient rather
> than all the email addresses to which it has been sent.
>
> I've looked at importing a Word file (in CSV format) into the Outlook
address
> book and adding these addresses into a mailgroup, which looks af it will
work
> OK, the only drawback being that I will need to put the mailgroup in the
:bcc
> field in order to avoid each recipient being presented with a long list of
> all recipients' email addresses. By using the :bcc field, the receiving
email
> address appears as 'Undisclosed Recipients' which is acceptable although
not
> ideal.
>
> Is this the best method or are there alternatives? I'm looking for any
> approach that doesn't involve too much programming effort.
>
> Any advice gratefully recieved.
>
> Many thanks,
> Ian
>
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