Who can help me with emailing
 

I need someone with expereince, I need to be able to email my past members and get into their email box but not interested in giving anyone the list.

Looking to pay good money for a solution

We have someone on staff now that is familiar with email campaign management. If you want to ICQ me I can get some basic info from you so we have a starting point.

160-754-97

Try Catherine at Robo Mail

www.robo-mail.com
815-776-9465

She may have a solution for you.

phplist, a good robust mailer. Highly reccomended!

bump ....

I think you need to learn some ICQ etiquette ;)

shame, I could have helped there

look all week tons of icqs about this everyone turned out to be BS!

So when you hit me up and said

"the emails are in a db and you just want to pull them and add some text to email them?"

I did overreact but like I said its been annoying trying to fix this mess

OK, well in any case AOL have their own blacklist - very difficult to get unlisted off it. I've been there and after 6 months of pestering emails -2 per week (set on auto script, the irony ), to which each had no response, the domain was unlisted

In any case, make sure you are mailing out from a valid email address (edit - valid meaning you physically send it with a valid SMTP login/pass) - that way it has proper X-Sender headers and mailer IP address that is the mail server (scripts, except XPM tend to run off PHPs mail function which is an absolute no no)

Make sure your mail server's IP address reverses back to itself in the DNS PTR record

Make sure your mail server is the authoritative server in the DNS MX records for the server in the From: field

I can give you a list of all the bad words (those that throw high scores) not to use in the subject line for the default installations of most major anti-spam programmes. Believe me, default installations are the norm, cos the weighting for words is a very delicate game and most admins leave on default and simply tweak individual words based on their userbase complaints.

AOL and Gmail - don't hit their servers too fast. Someone told me to stack emails to aol in a variable and then send at a rate of 1 per 3 secs, no faster. Gmail 1 per second. Can't confirm, but it's now my norm.

Voila

I think we should talk about your sites,

I'm prepairing something I'll have on paper at the end of the next week, I have you on my icq, this is just a warning.

:)