E-Mail Hosting

[ottosbeveragecenter]

We are a small business, and we just got our own domain.

Here the problem.
We have an E-Mail Wine Club, and we have maybe 1,000 members who signed up in our stores. We send e-mails maybe 2-3 times a month to our members. But our e-mail service provider (we currently do not host our own e-mail address but we would like to) only let us send to 100 people an hour and only 500 or so in a day. So it takes like 2 days to send one e-mail out to our club members.

We don't send pics, or html just text. We just want to be able to send it out in one day to our whole list. I've been looking around at bulk e-mail software. But if we have our own domain couldn't there be a simpler more cost effective way without spending a bunch of money on software.

Any suggestions?

Thank You

[michaewlewis]

Give Mercury Mail a try. http://www.pmail.com/
It runs in windows, has imap, pop3, & smtp, easy to understand gui, etc.
I was just trying to get on their site, but couldn't, so if you can't either, you can download xampp from http://www.apachefriends.org. Xampp has mercury mail bundled with it (Windows version only).

[soybean]

Do you have a website for your registered domain name?  Are you doing email through your web hosting service?  If not, have you looked into that?  In other words, is your "e-mail service provider" your web hosting service or some separate email service?

[ottosbeveragecenter]

We have the domain, but as far as I know no website has been uploaded yet.

So we have sbc global yahoo mail at the moment, and it sucks.

Do we have to have to website set up to use the bandwidtch, etc..?

[soybean]

If you're going to be publishing a website, since you have registered a domain name, you might go ahead and open account with a hosting service such as http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/ - one I'm familiar with - and run your email through them.  This would allow you to use a email address based on the domain name, such [email protected]. 

Or, you might subscribe to an email such as that available from domain registrar, godaddy.com.  They offer an Express Email Marketing service which might be just the right thing for you. 

[ottosbeveragecenter]

thank you so much for all your input.
It has been very helpful to us!

-Otto's

[soybean]

Thanks for the feedback.  Come back anytime.