field. Here all the email addresses are associated with the email - so it
shows as the email being part of a 'bulk' (read SPAM) email.
If you put them in the BCC: field. Then only the recipients email address is
associated with the email they receive - so it looks like a 1 to 1 email...
John
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Renee Ramig <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org>wrote:
> I agree with using hosted solutions.
>
> I started by breaking our email down by class (which has a max of 20
> students). This worked for awhile, but it required someone to send out over
> 20 emails (the same one to each different class) to ensure the mail got
> through.
>
> But last year, we had a class where almost half had gmail addresses. This
> caused the emails to stop going through. (My understanding is if a given
> provider sees a lot of email coming through at the same time, it blocks as
> spam. If this happens often enough, you get blacklisted and then it is
> horrible to try to repair that.) I even tried having our email go through
> Postini on the way out of our school (rather than just on the way in) in
> hopes that providers would see that it was already scanned by Postini and
> wasn't spam, but that didn't help.
>
> I now have classes broken down into two sets, so teachers can still send
> out to parents directly, using only two emails. (This is still working
> well.) However, anyone sending to more than two classes has the office send
> it out using Constant Contact.
>
> These hosted solutions work great. We have never had an issue with any
> mail getting through. If any mail does bounce, we get a report. All of the
> bouncebacks to date have been parents that changed their email without
> notifying the school.
>
> Renee Ramig
> Seven Hills School
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Joe Frost
> Sent: Thu 12/2/2010 6:15 AM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: trouble with group emails
>
> For years we had various problems with mass emails reaching their
> destinations from internal filters blocking some emails seemingly at
> random to getting blacklisted by ISPs.
>
> I sat on the phone for hours with AOL once trying to troubleshoot issues
> with them and their port redirects.
>
> It is so much easier to use hosted solutions that spend the time doing
> all that work proactively so all you need to do is create your message,
> generate lists and click send...
>
>
> http://www.verticalresponse.com
>
> http://www.constantcontact.com
>
>
> Thanks,
> *******
>
> Joe Frost, MS CIS
> Director of Technology & Operations
> Department Chair Technology
> http://www.phoenixchristian.org
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eagen, James [mailto:jeagen@mph.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:15 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: trouble with group emails
>
> We are having trouble getting mass emails out. I'm still trying to
> understand the inner working of the Barracuda filter. but it is quite
> confusing. Our provider says we have a 200 message limit when sending
> them in batches, but the emails being blocked are in batches of only 20
> to 30. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Jim Eagen
> Head of Middle School
> Manlius Pebble Hill School
> DeWitt, NY 13203
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