Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

Gary Stainburn gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Mon May 20 15:43:07 UTC 2013


Hi Jack

Before I put finger to keyboard I thought I would ask to see if there was 
already something out there.  If not, I'll knock something up.

Gary

On Monday 20 May 2013 16:40:06 Jack Craig wrote:
> sounds like a perfect perl app, have you posted to odesk.com?
>
> just a thought, ..
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Gary Stainburn <
>
> gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Folks.
> >
> > I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list
> > distribution
> > that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500
> > recipients
> > on this list.
> >
> > Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS Outlook
> > which he
> > maintains himself. He then sends himself an email every week containing
> > the stock list and BCC's the distribution list.  Other than generating an
> > excessive load on my EXIM server there has been no  real down side to
> > this as
> > it meant that I didn't have to get involved.
> >
> > However, we are now experiencing problems and I would like a better
> > solution.
> >
> > I need a system that will distribute the email to each recipient as a
> > seperate
> > message, and if possible will monitor and highlight any emails that fail.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a way of doing this? Ideally I would like the salesman
> > to
> > still be able to administer it but that isn't essential. If it is a
> > system that is either text file or database driven  I can create a UI
> > that he would
> > be able to use.
> >
> > Gary
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Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk 


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