<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>CiviMail which integrates with CiviCRM, and hence Drupal has been designed for high volume email blasts. We have quite a few folks using it with a decent volume. There is a paid service called CiviSMTP which avoids some of the more thorny installation / white listing issues. More information on this can be found on the CiviCRM web site / forums etc. CiviMail was based on EmailNow (an email blast service from groundspring.org). The architecture has evolved considerably since then, hence the past tense in the previous statement :). I dont think CiviMail has some of the composability features of constant contact etc, but from a delivery viewpoint its pretty good.<br><br>lobo<br><br>p.s> i am a developer on
CiviCRM / CiviMail and hence a wee bit biased :)<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Scott Trudeau <strudeau@umich.edu><br>To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers <consulting@drupal.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 4:19:32 AM<br>Subject: Re: [consulting] What do you use for your email newsletters?<br><br>
<br>I like CampaignMonitor. Similar to MailChimp.<br><br>Scott<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 4, 2008 7:40 AM, Tim Deeson <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:timd@deeson.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:timd@deeson.co.uk">timd@deeson.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Chris<br><br>I'm of much the same opinion, there's more to running large scale mass<br>email systems then just managing subscriptions and pumping emails into<br>Sendmail.<br><br>We've been using Drupal to manage and generate the HTML and the issues<br>
etc and then using MailChimp to do the actual emailing. We've embedded<br>MailChimp subscribe and unsubscribe etc into the template.<br><br>This has given us a CMS for non-techie staff to manage the newsletters<br>without getting into all the complicated deliverability issues. I<br>
don't see that we can address the deliverability issues at a price<br>that makes sense compared to MailChimp's (for example) rates.<br><br>We also use their InBox Inspector (email program HTML proofer) and<br>statistics which could be replicated but at their prices why re-invent<br>
the wheel?<br><br>An example of this is <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.green-places.co.uk">www.green-places.co.uk</a> (demonstrates principle<br>although doesn't use MailChimp). This site was created specifically to<br>
house and manage an email newsletter.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Tim<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.deeson.co.uk/emedia/">www.deeson.co.uk/emedia/</a><br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Hi guys,<br>><br>> I'm new to this list so please forgive if this has been addressed<br>
> before.<br>><br>> I often get requests from clients for email newsletter facilities, and<br>> i know Drupal has a module that handles this, but I've usually chosen<br>> a third party solution like Mailbuild, or Mailchimp over it though.<br>
> I'm doing this because there seems to be way more to email marketing<br>> than simply bolting a module onto a Drupal install, and I don't have<br>> the resources to track white lists and spam filtering, and all the<br>
> other niggly things about sending bulk emails.<br>><br>> Well, those are the reasons the third party solutions give in their<br>> sales pitch anyway!<br>><br>> Has anyone here had good/bad experiences with providing Drupal-related<br>
> newsletter services to clients here they would be prepared to share?<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> Chris<br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>consulting mailing list<br>
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