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[EyeOfTheTiger]

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Hi,

I've searched the boards but cannot find any information of previous posts concerning free email marketing software or service providers.

I don't really have much money to be honest so would like to try out a free one while I build a list. Once I have an established list I will hopefully then be able to transfer to one of the others recommended elsewhere. Like supercod's bespoke! If I earned anywhere near that from affiliate markeing

Could someone please advise. I tried looking at topica as I thought they were free but apparently not !!!

Any advice or guidance will be much appreciated.

Thanks

Tiger

[Keith]

you could try these for starters http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/

[uklejon]

Do it yourself, but check with your host if they let you send out mailourts and how many per connection....

I use mailerPro from doitasp.com

They do a free version called mailerFree and it worls a treat...

[lowndsy]

The cpanel software that comes with most hosting often has some pretty comprehensive third party mailing list software included, though I'd be tempted to run it from a different domain name / server for security.

If you would like to see how something like that suits you then feel free to get in touch - I could do you a few months free trial and then a small monthly arrangement, and a couple of people on this forum can probably vouch for me.
All of this on the condition that you did a proper double opt-in mailing list (user asks to join, you confirm, they say yes) - unsolicited email is one of the quickest ways to annoy people in this business.

Stay lucky,
Steve

[Frostie]

Take a look here;
http://tincan.co.uk/phplist

If you have a host that supports PHP and gives you a mySQL database this is the mutts nutts - and is free

Build multiple lists in a single database (maybe your visitor would like to be kept up to date on Phones, Movies or Sports). They just tick the info they want - and thats it, jobs a goodun. When it comes to sending, you just send to the relevant group.

If you want to make everyone join your monthly newsletter then this is also possible - and it allows double optin so people have to confirm before they receive anything.

[lowndsy]

yeah, most of them have similar features but this one does look good, especially since it's developed in the UK - one would hope that it avoids some of the problems that come from massive teams of open source coders from all around the world.

[fishboy]

I'm using dadamail and have been for sometime now. Currently working with a list of around 10k and it handles it fine. Allows me to send out X amount of emails per hour so that i don't kill the server too which is nice

[andy_jacko]

Ive installed phplist and seems fairly simple to use (cant be to hard if I got it installed )

my problem is when a user clicks to confirm on the first email they get 3 welcome emails.

normal mails send just one so thats ok,

i just think it would annoy me if i got sent 3 welcomes, and may put other people off.

any ideas guys.

regards andy

p.s. i posted on their own forum but no reply.

[fishboy]

Have you dug around in the code to see what happens when somebody clicks on the link? if there's no apparent error you could always do a fresh install, shouldn't take you more than 5 mins.

[andy_jacko]

tried to look to see what happens when clicked.

it goes to domain.com/lists/?p=confirm&uid=.....etc etc.


looked in the code for the pages not a chance.

went for the full reinstall and am still getting the same problem



regards andy

[fishboy]

if the list is setup on you faithless.co.uk domain post up the url. i'll subscribe for you and let you know what happens.

[andy_jacko]

its on

http://newsletter.sendto.co.uk/lists/

my first attempt at csv and sql


regards andy

[fishboy]

Ohh err, thought it had worked fine untill i clicked on the link to confirm my subscription. Then i was indeed bombarded with your 3 thank you emails. It's not anyhitng to do with your email setting for noreply@sendto.co.uk is it?

[andy_jacko]

dont think it is, I changed the address in the config. and signed again under a different account got 3 welcomes.

when i unsbubscribed i only got 1 goodbye so thats a start


regards andy