FN-FORUM: Advice required - html/email mailout marketing methods

date posted 31st January 2007 12:04

Hello


My main client asked me a long time ago to setup a sustem of sending out
large numbers of emails to her contacts database so that she could send
samples of her photographs to prospective clients

Her database has maybe 4000 contacts - not all of which have an email
address or a valid email address - I tried several ways of doing this - all
of which have problems attached to it - I eventually decided on a plugin for
FileMakerPro, where I upload a page to the internet so I can copy the code
into the appropriate window in FMP and it would mail out this to each
contact individually (unlike outlook which just cc's everyone in your group
which creates problems when it encounters invalid addresses)

This method, albeit scrappy, works, but the way that (I assume) her ISP SMTP
host works it will allow maybe 100 to go out and then start blocking them -
so after you do a mailout - you have to search for the ones that did not
work and resend for those - this was not a prob for me as I used to live 10
mins down the road - howecer she has moved and wants to do it herself - she
will not be able to do it herself without phoning me every half hour

So - I suppose this is a long way of asking - does anyone know an alternate
and easier way of doing html mailouts, or mailouts with attachments

If anyone can suggest a reasoably priced method of doing this I will forward
it on



Thanks

John Deaville