Thursday, June 18, 2009

Re: email broadcasts to parent groups

We have written a Perl script to pull parent email addresses from Education
Edge and update Mailman mailing lists daily. The other permissions you
mentioned can be set in Mailman.

Richard

On 6/18/09 11:48 AM, "JPDS Tech" <techpurchases@jpds.org> wrote:

> What systems do your schools use for sending out emails to groups of
> parents? Our current email server software (ipswitch's imail server) has
> allowed us to create customized lists such as parents@ and fourthgrade@.
>
> We are changing our email solution away from POP3, probably to Google
> Apps/Ed. We haven't resolved how to replace our 'volume' email procedures.
>
>
> We'd like to be able to
> -> create multiple customized distribution lists; specific administrator
> accounts need CC copies from every list.
> -> build these lists from our database (PCR) or at least from a CSV file
> -> mask the recipients' addresses (send as BCC or simply indicate that it
> was sent to the group)
> -> control list of senders (e.g. We don't want parents to be able to send to
> a list. At the very least this reduces the chances of those 'reply all'
> mistakes!)
> -> customize subject lines e.g. [PARENTS] so that it is clear that the email
> is being sent to the list.
> -> set message size limits to prevent overly large emails (in the past some
> of our teachers have sent out 30 MB emails to lists with 50 addresses on
> them!).
>
> ANY hints or guidance would be welcome. Free is great, but we'll pay if we
> must. Also, we're looking seriously at Google Apps/Ed so any suggestions
> specific to that package would be extra useful. We're also looking at
> Zimbra but that is a long shot given the cost differences. Feel free to
> reply off-list if this has been discussed previously.
>
> I'm looking forward to seeing many of you at NECC!
>
> Dan Berger
> Jewish Primary Day School
> Washington, DC
>
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