Best program for mass mailing (no spam)?

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Hi everyone.

Please recommend a program for mass mailing (no spam).

For example I want to send my 100 employees letters not one by one but to all 100 employees at once. Optionally I would like to have a function to specify the name of each employee.

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Is this email strictly internal to the companyā€™s domain or is it going randomly over the internet?

If the former, what are your hosting arrangements?

To be honest, when we do the former i.e. all employees at once (its being strictly internal) we just use a distribution list. So all you do, as the sender, is send to the ā€œdistribution listā€ and the mail system takes care of the rest. That of course is dependent on two things.

  1. A process that maintains the distribution list in some way, as employees are created and deleted.
  2. A mail system that supports distribution lists.

Possibly mailing list software would be an alternative to a distribution list. Itā€™s basically the same thing.

For the latter i.e. basically a mail merge, itā€™s a pass from me.

Edit: PS Sometimes internal communications are done better via something other than email.

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Your typical office program should have a mailmerge feature to print names and addresses to fields on letters and envelopes.

Buy 100 stamps.

The hardest part is matching each letter to the correct envelope before folding it and stuffing it.

To prevent chafing, buy rubber fingers or a small tub of SortKwik. (Or you may have rubber gloves left over from the Covid days.)

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Try https://listmonk.app/ we are currently testing this for purism news letters.

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If youā€™re looking for a more comprehensive suite of tools, Stalwart seems promising (AGPLv3), though there are some features that are pay-walled and not libre software/open source (see their FAQ for their reasoning). The mailing list feature is available on all of their tiers though.

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There are pretty good guides for this using your regular office programs, as mail merges with individualized info for mass mailing are a common task. A separate app, especially an online one, may introduce privacy risks to all parties involved - there may be company policies and liability stuff involved. Mass mailing and Libre Office are powerful tools - use them wisely.

MS has itā€™s own and if you are using for instance Libre Office, take a look at:

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Thank you all for the answers.
I wanted to get such a program from the repository.
If I understood you correctly, can I use for bulk mailing, for example, the claws-mail client?
Or is it a different type of program?
I havenā€™t figured it out yet. I agree with JR-Fi that these services are risks and not control over my data, since all my information will be stored on someone elseā€™s server.

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Itā€™s not free, its not open source, but a program that I use is called AventX by STR Software. (Easily searched for.) At work it mass emails hundreds a day, mostly invoices and purchase orders It also needs dedicated hardware to spit them out via SMTP. They have hung their hat working with Oracle, JD Edwards, and SAP, although these adjuncts are not required. It will also fax to your phone switch trunking with SIP or use FOIP. It also has real tech support that you pay for.

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Thank you very much for your answer. Iā€™m looking for a program so that there is no evil corporation on its site f@ceb@@k.

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You didnā€™t answer my questions (which is fine) but note that mass mailing onto the internet is ā€œhardā€.

Sure, anyone can send an email in ā€œ200ā€ lines of code, and hence trivially send any number of emails, but in the real world you have to contend with anti-spam and all sorts of other administrative restrictions. (It actually doesnā€™t matter that you arenā€™t sending spam or you think that you are not sending spam. What matters is what the receiving servers think.)

As an example, ignoring the fact that 100 recipients may be too trivial, receivers may take note of non-existent recipients, and if you exceed the threshold of non-existent recipients then the receiver will block you. So it becomes important to keep your distribution list up to date and accurate - over and above whatever is your choice of software.

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Good luck with that, you just called my friendā€™s company ā€˜evilā€™. You get what you pay for

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