Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

[John Aldrich]

Quoting Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk>:

> 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.
>
Simple... use a service such as Constant Contact. I believe they will  
accept that this list was generated as an opt-in list, but I'd be  
prepared for some questions from the recipients. If it were me, I'd  
send a couple emails out advising I was moving the list to a  
list-management service (such as CC) ahead of time to try and reduce  
the "surprise" factor.