BATCH MAILING

[nomis1934]

Because there is so much spam out there, IP's are limiting the mail to about 200 per hour unless you are a major user and pay a stiff price per month for the service. We do have occasions that a mailing would go out that was around 600-800 addresses.

I have been told that there may be software that could be purchased for BATCH MAILINGS, and if so, could it be tied into POCO?

Anyone out there in POCO land know of this?

[robin]

Since Poco is not programmable in the M$ sense - I doubt that any products on the market will tie in with Poco. But since the restriction is by your ISP, then how would using batch mailing software actually help you?

[nomis1934]

Software that would release say 150 pieces an hour automatically to keep under the 200 limit per hour that some ISP's have preset. So If I mailed 500 pieces to my clients, they would automatically be dispersed in a preset count.

I assume in an effort to cut down on the spamming, automatic equipment has been designed control everyone's mailing of bulk material.

Much of my addresses in POCO have been "batched" in lots of 25 or so. With POCO that is a very slow procedure to set up because it is a drag and drop system. Have to used that method otherwise I would have to correct, change or delete in both the main file and the batched file.

[Michael]

A script might be able to help with this. You can certainly program delays into sending messages but i have not done this in the order of hours. I'm not sure what the impacts of this on the check mail process would be. Perhaps a script fired on the OnTimer event would do the trick here.

[jaxgtr]

You might look into a list server setup. I have seen free ones before. You can upload all your addresses and let it do the heavy lifting.

MajorDomo is a pretty good freeware item.

http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/

Brian

[nomis1934]

I want to thank everyone in their efforts to solve the problem. POCO is one of my best programs, very little if no problems. It is a pleasure to work and look forward to the next version.

The only suggestion at this point that I have is to improve the way POCO make groups. Rather than dragging and dropping, a copy method that would update the addresses in the groups when the main is modified. This would solve my problem as a small business and overcome the limitations of e-mailng that is placed on us by our ISP's to prevent spam.