MailChimp, my preferred newsletter/mailing list/mass emailing software, just upped the ante: you can now use their service, completely free of charge, for your mailing list of 2,000 subscribers and send 12,000 emails per month.
Tag Archives | Email
Setting up an email group (or forwarder) in Google Apps
Google Apps (for email) used to have simple forwarders, but now they use Groups as forwarders so you can email to more than one person. Lots of options to work with.
Setting up a new email address in Google Apps
You’re all set up with Google Apps, loving it, and want to add a new email address. Not just a forwarder, but a real account with POP access and webmail access etc. Here’s a step-by-step video to show you how.
Using you@yourdomain.com in Yahoo
You can use your Yahoo (or Gmail etc.) account to get your you@yourdomain.com email. This saves you the hassle of POP and SMTP settings, figuring out how to send email from your hotel room or a wireless Internet cafe, and gives you a solid email program and reliable service. What’s not to like? Here’s a [...]
Moving Email
If you’re changing hosts and you use you@yourdomain.com, it can be difficult or impossible to transfer old email (sent items, inbox, etc.) and your address book. If you don’t care about that old mail or address book, great, no worries. If you would like to try to keep some of that, here are a few [...]
Email Obfuscator
Jason Brantley over at Axis Computer Consulting recommended a stronger-than-PHP method of obfuscating–or munging, hiding, encrypting–email addresses on websites: the email address munger. Here’s an excerpt from their site: Email address munging is the act of using ASCII, JavaScript, and scrambling of letters in your email address in order to hide your email address from [...]
Vertical Response
I’ve been looking for some time for mailing list software that didn’t charge a monthly fee, but rather on a per email or per recipient basis. Please use the link below to sign up for Vertical Response and you’ll get 25 emails free to test with. After that, it’s around one penny per recipient for mass emailings. No monthly fees, no sign-up fees.
Setting up Email using cPanel and Outlook
Help video that walks through setting up an email address using cPanel and then setting up that email address in Outlook.
Bounced Email and Null Senders
Just got a note from my host after a client said mail was bouncing to her. Turns out that my host uses some spam-prevention techniques that will bounce email that doesn’t comply. In my opinion, this sounds like an issue that the sending party’s host should deal with as our host is just battling spam. [...]
Insert Image in PHP List
The new version of PHP List (2.10.4) makes it easier to embed an image into your newsletter/mass mailing. Here’s a video that walks through the process. Insert Image in PHP List
No more forwarding to Hotmail / MSN accounts
Due to the increase in complaints, effective February 10, 2007, we will no longer allow forwards from our accounts to Hotmail / MSN accounts. Update: Yahoo too.
Emailing Large Files
With more and more high-quality digital photos, movies, and audio files, people want to email larger and larger files. Many ISPs conk out if you try to send (or receive) attachments over 10 MB or so. Or your server might just decide to do some spring cleaning and remove all large and/or old attachments. There’s [...]
Email This
GaMerZ has written a great plugin called Email This that provides a great way for viral marketing of your site, your products, or your services. Here’s a help video that shows how it’s used with BNI Embarcadero to refer a fellow member. Email This Video
Can’t send mail? Your ISP might require authentication.
Here’s the example for SBC Global. Depending on your ISP (e.g. Earthlink, Comcast), your mileage may vary. Likoma Tutorial Video
Domain Name Registration: My Real Address?
The governing body of domain names, ICANN, says you should have “not false” information about yourself as the domain name owner (see article on GoDaddy website here). My guess is that it’s so when they’re tracking down spammers they can find the information about the guilty party and go after them. It basically says this: [...]
