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Looking for good emailing service

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by wfrush

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I have a couple of clients that send bulk emails to association members. They have both been using internal email servers to handle the work. I am suggesting that they look to an emailing service provider. I envision a service with an ability to maintain the member/email address database remotely, a good attempt at Internet security (don't want to lose control of the list), decent bandwidth, and an ability to send thousands of emails a day.

This is not spam I'm talking about, either. I hate spam, and am satisfied that I am not helping spammers.

Can you recommend one ?

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by wfrush

The main reason would be to use more bandwidth for large email projects without ramping up the bandwidth to a high level (T-1 or higher) when they don't normally use it.

If they had a service (presumably close to the "core" of the Internet) thathad substatial bandwidth, then they could send out emails with mid-size attachments to the many clients. With DSL-sized bandwidth (especially asyncronous DSL), this is taking quite some time. My thought was to have the service for large jobs without over-building their local infrastructure.

by itopman

although your client is sending lage amounts of mail why go external were you have limited control, use an exchange server!

these are more then capabile of sending large amounts of mail daily as long as you build enough capacity into your system.

and long term it will be a cheaper option

itopman

by wfrush

They're using an Exchange server now. We're evaluating whether they need to upgrade it, and upgrade their bandwidth, and the costs associated with those upgrades, vs. using an email service to off-load the large jobs.

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