It's our hope Google will improve that function soon but we have been
waiting since December, too. Our Google consultant, Matt Clark has
developed a little program to upload lists from a spreadsheet. He can be
reached matt@itstrue.ca. He is willing and able to work with schools. We
use him for any problems or Google questions we have - we find it's a faster
fix to go through him than Google in many cases.
Secondly, we use a school database called Achieve out of Dallas -
http://www.achieve-technology.com. They have a nice database, affordable,
and it has fully functioning email groups either through their new web
version or through Outlook with their server side software - and you can use
gmail through outlook, no problem. We are considering upgrading to their
web version but we are running server side.
Trenia
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Richard Kassissieh
<kassissiehr@catlin.edu>wrote:
> 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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