There are grades.<br><br>If your list is relatively small and infrequent, and your web host allows it, SimpleNews is probably good enough.<br><br>If you send enough email that you can afford the sysadmin costs to deal with managing a high volume outgoing mail server vs. the cost of something like CivicSMTP or CampaignMonitor, that makes sense -- but if you care about your mail actually being delivered and want nice tools to track things like open rates, IMO you'll have to be sending a LOT of mail before this is cost-justified.<br>
<br>I think the middle ground is a pretty large space. IMO *most* broadcast email lists should use a service. I haven't used CivicSMTP but it sounds fantastic for anyone who is already using (or willing to use) CiviCRM.<br>
<br>Scott<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 4, 2008 3:40 PM, Bevan Rudge <<a href="mailto:bevan@civicactions.com">bevan@civicactions.com</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;">
For very large scale mailings I think these methods can become very<br>pricey and/or not customized or efficient enough. Any thoughts? Does<br>anyone host or manage large-scale mailing servers?<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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