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Started by hdunlavy at 09-26-2005 5:15 PM. Topic has 2 replies.

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   09-26-2005, 5:15 PM
hdunlavy is not online. Last active: 4/13/2007 10:00:47 PM hdunlavy

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Good Mailing List Program
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I am looking for a good mailing list program that will handle bounced e-mails.

I have tried the e-mail mailing lists that WebHost4Life provides (both the old and the new), and neither handles bounced e-mails.

I have tried Google Groups, which claims to handle bounced e-mails, but in my testing actually does not.

Both Yahoo Groups and MSN Groups have advertising in their e-mails, and I don't want that.

I had used a Zope-based mailing list program that properly handled bounced e-mails, but that was on my previous, BSD Unix-based web host.

I have a few mailing lists that I post information to (really announcement lists), but I need to know if an e-mail gets bounced for some reason. I am currently just using the BCC: option, but would like to allow a few other people to post announcements to the list as well.

So I thought maybe there is a .NET-based mailing list program that would handle bounced e-mails.

Does anyone know of any?

-Howard
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   09-29-2005, 9:08 PM
Jordan is not online. Last active: 10/27/2008 10:30:36 PM Jordan

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Re: Good Mailing List Program
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I use Topica (http://lists.topica.com/) for a few lists and they seem to handle bounced emails fairly well.  It's not as fancy as Yahoo Groups, MSN, or some of the others, but it does the basics quite well.  When an email bounces it automatically suspends that address.  It will display a list of all addresses that bounced and allow you to re-enable the address or delete it.

Additionally, they don't add any advertising other than a one liner on the bottom with a link to their site, they have a double opt in to subscribe which prevents someone from maliciously adding a bunch of addresses to the list, and it's free.


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   11-14-2008, 12:15 AM
cky is not online. Last active: 11/14/2008 4:01:05 PM cky

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I've tried a few including Aweber, and then MailMan, ZListMailer, and various windows based mailing list programs.. 

Thus far, I've stuck with Zlistmailer.com probably because it is free, handles bounce processing, and is free,

Before discovering that service, I was using Awber at $20 a month, but really dissatisfied with the lack of more advanced features
like bounce, control over double opt in, lack of rss feed's, etc.  And before aweber I was being really ripped off by another service
which was horrificly feature less and archaic in my opinion and paying over $80 a month for my pretty minimal usage, a list then of under 2,000.

And I won't get into what Lsoft wanted me to pay to use ListServ, it was many thousands, and my finally telling them to go jump off a cliff
which is what moved me to Aweber, but disliked technical control over things such as bounce handling, ability to use my own or different outgoing smtp servers, etc.

Anyways, I hope that helps you and ya might check out their service, heck being FREE I had nothing to lose and happy since then.
The only thing that would upset me is if they ever started charging, lord willing that never happens.
If I remember correctly, they had some demo account system that let me just start using it without signing up.

Their site is www.Zlistmailer.com  and I just found the the demo system at http://ZlistMailer.com/admin/index.php
Chris,

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