Newsletter Problem

[davej2k]

I'm trying to send out a newsletter to our customers through outlook express.
It's in HTML format, when I try to send it to myself it comes out fine however when I send it to the list it comes out in text format showing code like below:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0042_01C7A692.23A15480
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0043_01C7A692.23A15480"


------=_NextPart_001_0043_01C7A692.23A15480
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dear CustomerDear Customer,
With the Summer now in full swing it's time to make sure you have =

Does anyone know what might be causing this problem.

[Christiane]

I send mine from Outlook but I create it in Publisher and it comes out fine.

[davej2k]

I created it in frontpage and it sends mine to just a few emails. Could it be because I send it to so many people?

[Christiane]

I had over 140 email addresses last month and I put them all in BCC no problem... Publisher is quite good as there is already a template for newsletter then just choose send from the menu.
I intend to sign up to a third party when the list gets less manageable. By doing it myself, I don't get any stats.

[Carl-CSNM]

Outlook is not a newsletter manager and sending newsletters from it and Publisher would make you look highly unprofessional if I recieved one.

Use a service such as The Autoresponder (http://www.the-autoresponder.co.uk/).

[radioman]

Check out http://www.designerfreesolutions.com/web/homepage.asp

If you have a website you can run it from then it's great. It tracks when links are clicked and when newsletters are read etc. Does multipart e-mails (which is what you have above) too.

Dale

[davej2k]

Does anyone know any decent free newsletter sending software. I don't mind paying but at the moment it's not worthwhile as we don't send the newsletter to many customers.

[radioman]

Dave

I don't think there is much for free.

The cost for the software at the link I gave is USD 84.00, about GBP 45.00. Is your job not worth that? I researched quite hard before buying it - looked at many programs and services, but none had the cost/benefits.

If you are running a Win XP Pro machine, you can install it on your local copy of IIS so you don't need to have an ASP website.

Dale

[Subbynet]

Does anyone know any decent free newsletter sending software. I don't mind paying but at the moment it's not worthwhile as we don't send the newsletter to many customers.

Yeah, phpList is good enough for most small businesses and completely free.

http://www.phplist.com

Regards,

Martin

[radioman]

I stand corrected - that looks like a perfect solution to me.

Dale

[arashti]

For people using Microsoft Office package with word, excel and outlook.

I don't like this method but it's the best solution for normal users and web beginers.

a) Create a list of email addresess in Excel file and save it
b) Open word document write, paint text in email ( whatever)
c) Go to tools > Letters and Mailings > Mail Merger
d) Select "Email message" from mail merger options
e) Click next next next to step 3 of 6 then click browse and select created excel file with list of emails
f) select sheet and column
g) Click next and go to step 6 of 6
h) Click electronic mail and select subject mail format and column inside excel file.
i) click ok

Word, excel and outlook will merge and send newsletter to everybody from the list using your setting from outlook.

This solution is working for:

- Smtp server and domain member using outlook 2003 and Exchange server. I test it also on smtp account with smtp-auth autorization and qmail, postfix server

Simple solution good for small newsletter system. Not good for big one but once I sent 5000 mess to members. It's quick

I like more jetmail, but it's more complicated and cost money.

Rgds,