Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 14:17:36 von Wim Cossement

Hi,

Does anyone knows of a good, free tool to send like 1 mail (with a doc
attached) to like 5000 people?

We did a petition about a year ago, and want to inform all the ones that
signed it.

I could use Words mail merge function, but that requires Outlook and I
don't want that on my PC.

Right now the E-mails are in a CSV file, so they can be changed into
some other filetype if needed.

Thanks,

Wimmy

--
+----------+
| PLEASE |
| DO NOT |
| FEED THE |
| TROLLS |
+----------+
| |
| |
.\|.||/..

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 15:45:41 von Alan Connor

On comp.mail.misc, in , "Wim
Cossement" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone knows of a good, free tool to send like 1 mail
> (with a doc attached) to like 5000 people?
>
> We did a petition about a year ago, and want to inform all the
> ones that signed it.
>
> I could use Words mail merge function, but that requires
> Outlook and I don't want that on my PC.
>
> Right now the E-mails are in a CSV file, so they can be changed
> into some other filetype if needed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wimmy
>
> --

+----------+
| PLEASE |
| DO NOT |
| FEED THE |
| SPAMMERS |
+----------+
| |
| |
.\|.||/..

AC

--
alanconnor AT earthlink DOT net
Use your real return address or I'll never know you
even tried to mail me. http://tinyurl.com/2t5kp
~

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 16:07:58 von Sam

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 16:09:52 von Wim Cossement

Hey, its not for spam man!

http://www.elso.org/index.php?id=petition

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 16:59:08 von Alan Connor

On comp.mail.misc, in , "Wim Cossement" wrote:
>
>
> Hey, its not for spam man!
>
> http://www.elso.org/index.php?id=petition

:-)

If you used Linux, this would be childsplay.

But I don't know Windows at all.

But being as most of the spammers on the Internet are Windows
users, I would imagine that about 20 minutes on Google, or some
other search engine, would net you what you want.

Of course, there are many spammers that monitor and post on this
group, pretending to be spamfighters so that they can learn
how to defeat the latest strategies and tools, and spread
disinformation about the most effective ones and encourage
people to use the ones they know well.

Maybe one of them will tell you what software he/she uses.

Even if you did use Unix/Linux, I wouldn't post the solution
here. Only by email and under the condition that you would
not post it here either.

Sorry,

P.S. "Sam" is a troll who hates my guts because I haven't
read one of his posts in years, regardless of which of
his numerous aliases he is employing at the moment.
Nor do I read any responses to his posts.

AC

--
alanconnor AT earthlink DOT net
Use your real return address or I'll never know you
even tried to mail me. http://tinyurl.com/2t5kp
~

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 17:31:37 von Wim Cossement

> If you used Linux, this would be childsplay.

That can be done, the server that was used to run the site still has
Postfix & MySQL on it, it was used in combination with Apache & PHP to
send a mail to the users first.

I have a good general Linux knowledge, but never used anything but
webmail or some client to do my mail, so I'm not good with mutt or mail :-/

So if there are scripts or programs available, I could try those instead.

> But I don't know Windows at all.
>
> But being as most of the spammers on the Internet are Windows
> users, I would imagine that about 20 minutes on Google, or some
> other search engine, would net you what you want.

Some crappy freeware or some good, but expensive commercial software :-p

> Maybe one of them will tell you what software he/she uses.

I'd rather not go there, I kinda dislike spam...

> Even if you did use Unix/Linux, I wouldn't post the solution
> here. Only by email and under the condition that you would
> not post it here either.

I'll send you an email then, mmmkay?

> Sorry,
>
> P.S. "Sam" is a troll who hates my guts because I haven't
> read one of his posts in years, regardless of which of
> his numerous aliases he is employing at the moment.
> Nor do I read any responses to his posts.

Your nemesis? :-)

FAQ: Canonical list of questions Beavis refuses to answer (V1.40) (was Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 17:45:36 von Sam

This is a MIME GnuPG-signed message. If you see this text, it means that
your E-mail or Usenet software does not support MIME signed messages.

--=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-20188-1119368738-0004
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Usenet Beavis writes:

> On comp.mail.misc, in , "Wim Cossement" wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hey, its not for spam man!
>>
>> http://www.elso.org/index.php?id=petition
>
> :-)
>
> If you used Linux, this would be childsplay.

And if you knew Linux, Beavis, you would've already found my name and
address on your Linux box, where it's been for several years now.

> But I don't know Windows at all.

Enumerating all the things you don't know, Beavis, would take forever. A
better approach is to write down all the things you do know. It's gotta be
a much sorter list.

> But being as most of the spammers on the Internet are Windows
> users, I would imagine that about 20 minutes on Google, or some
> other search engine, would net you what you want.

Beavis, would you mind offering a cite to something that supports your
contention?

> Of course, there are many spammers that monitor and post on this
> group, pretending to be spamfighters so that they can learn
> how to defeat the latest strategies and tools, and spread
> disinformation about the most effective ones and encourage
> people to use the ones they know well.

This is the new entry, #14, in the Beavis FAQ, below.

> Maybe one of them will tell you what software he/she uses.
>
> Even if you did use Unix/Linux, I wouldn't post the solution
> here. Only by email and under the condition that you would
> not post it here either.

How is that possible, Beavis, since you automatically delete all your mail?

> Sorry,
>
> P.S. "Sam" is a troll who hates my guts because I haven't

I don't hate you, Beavis. I'm quite fond of you. You never fail to liven
up an otherwise boring day.

> read one of his posts in years, regardless of which of

Beavis FAQ, #6.

> his numerous aliases he is employing at the moment.

Beavis FAQ, #5.

> Nor do I read any responses to his posts.

Beavis FAQ, #6 again.

============================================================ ================

FAQ: Canonical list of questions Beavis refuses to answer (V1.40)

This is a canonical list of questions that Beavis never answers. This FAQ is
posted on a semi-regular schedule, as circumstances warrant.

For more information on Beavis, see:

http://angel.1jh.com/nanae/kooks/alanconnor.shtml

Although Beavis has been posting for a long time, he always remains silent
on the subjects enumerated below. His response, if any, usually consists of
replying to the parent post with a loud proclamation that his Usenet-reading
software runs a magical filter that automatically identifies anyone who's
making fun of him, and hides those offensive posts. For more information
see question #9 below.

============================================================ ================

1) If spammers avoid forging real E-mail addresses on spam, then where do
all these bounces everyone reports getting (for spam with their return
address was forged onto) come from?

2) If your Challenge-Response filter is so great, why do you still munge
when posting to Usenet?

3) Do you still believe that rsh is the best solution for remote access?
(http://tinyurl.com/5qqb6)

4) What is your evidence that everyone who disagrees with you, and thinks
that you're a moron, is a spammer?

5) How many different individuals do you believe really post to
comp.mail.misc? What is the evidence for your paranoid belief that everyone,
except you, who posts here is some unknown arch-nemesis of yours?

6) How many times, or how often, do you believe is necessary to announce
that you do not read someone's posts? What is your reason for making these
regularly-scheduled proclamations? Who do you believe is so interested in
keeping track of your Usenet-reading habits?

7) When was the last time you saw Bigfoot (http://tinyurl.com/23r3f)?

8) If your C-R system employs a spam filter so that it won't challenge spam,
then why does any of the mail that passes the filter, and is thusly presumed
not to be spam, need to be challenged?

9) You claim that the software you use to read Usenet magically identifies
any post that makes fun of you. In http://tinyurl.com/3swes you explain
that "What I get in my newsreader is a mock post with fake headers and no
body, except for the first parts of the Subject and From headers."

Since your headers indicate that you use slrn and, as far as anyone knows,
the stock slrn doesn't work that way, is this interesting patch to slrn
available for download anywhere?

10) You regularly post alleged logs of your procmail recipe autodeleting a
bunch of irrelevant mail that you've received. Why, and who exactly do you
believe is interested in your mail logs?

11) How exactly do you "enforce" an "order" to stay out of your mailbox,
supposedly (http://tinyurl.com/cs8jt)? Since you issue this "order" about
every week, or so, apparently nobody wants to follow it. What are you going
to do about it?

12) What's with your fascination with shit? (also http://tinyurl.com/cs8jt)?

13) You complain about some arch-nemesis of yours always posting forged
messages in your name. Can you come up with even a single URL, as an example
of what you're talking about?

14) You always complain about some mythical spammers that pretend to be
spamfighters (http://tinyurl.com/br4td). Who exactly are those people, and
can you post a copy of a spam that you supposedly received from them, that
proves that they're really spammers, and not spamfighters?

--=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-20188-1119368738-0004
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBCuDYix9p3GYHlUOIRAi1ZAJ4jRq+7gFaoOepYglU9Yjj5H6huHACf ZAtJ
7QlNaHew3IAnt1bfotMT6fw=
=RkVY
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-20188-1119368738-0004--

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 18:11:55 von Alan Connor

On comp.mail.misc, in , "Wim Cossement" wrote:

>
> I'll send you an email then, mmmkay?

I've sent one to the address in your From header.

>
>> Sorry,
>>
>> P.S. "Sam" is a troll who hates my guts because I haven't
>> read one of his posts in years, regardless of which of
>> his numerous aliases he is employing at the moment.
>> Nor do I read any responses to his posts.
>
>
> Your nemesis? :-)

He probably thinks that. It's apparent that he believes that I
read his posts, which I don't. My newsfilter even replaces the
subject line of any of his posts (or responses to them) with
"XXXXXXX".

AC

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 19:21:22 von Wim Cossement

> I've sent one to the address in your From header.

The E-mail in the NG message is specially as an anti-spam matter, and I
saw my 1st mail did not arrive because I made a typo in your address, so
I've sent it once more...

> He probably thinks that. It's apparent that he believes that I
> read his posts, which I don't. My newsfilter even replaces the
> subject line of any of his posts (or responses to them) with
> "XXXXXXX".

Well, good luck to both of you! :-)

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 21.06.2005 19:28:38 von Sam

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 22.06.2005 09:57:06 von Wim Cossement

Guys,

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471654655.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg , please!

Wimmy

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 22.06.2005 13:22:11 von Andrew Butchart

I hate to suggest this, but if it's a one-time mailing and you've got the
addressess in an electronic document, split the list into 100 pieces and
send it out 50 people at at a time using copy and paste on the address. It
would be faster than any other solution and would probably prevent your
messages from being picked up by servers as spam.

--
Andrew Butchart
andrew@floatingbear.ca

"Wim Cossement" wrote in message
news:d98vtt$ogc$1@snic.vub.ac.be...
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone knows of a good, free tool to send like 1 mail (with a doc
> attached) to like 5000 people?
>
> We did a petition about a year ago, and want to inform all the ones that
> signed it.
>
> I could use Words mail merge function, but that requires Outlook and I
> don't want that on my PC.
>
> Right now the E-mails are in a CSV file, so they can be changed into
> some other filetype if needed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wimmy
>
> --
> +----------+
> | PLEASE |
> | DO NOT |
> | FEED THE |
> | TROLLS |
> +----------+
> | |
> | |
> .\|.||/..

Re: Mass mailing tool?

am 22.06.2005 14:01:14 von Wim Cossement

Andrew Butchart wrote:

> I hate to suggest this, but if it's a one-time mailing and you've got the
> addressess in an electronic document, split the list into 100 pieces and
> send it out 50 people at at a time using copy and paste on the address. It
> would be faster than any other solution and would probably prevent your
> messages from being picked up by servers as spam.
>
I did this the first time, but I think they've been changing the config
of our SMTP, so this does not work anymore...

But I found a way to do it with a script...

C U,

Wimmy

--
+----------+
| PLEASE |
| DO NOT |
| FEED THE |
| TROLLS |
+----------+
| |
| |
.\|.||/..