Saturday
Apr262008
"bulk" mail
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 12:42PM
today has been a little interesting. one of my clients has a medium sized client base, but it can be grouped into categories of clientele. he wants to send "bulk" messages to his clients, offering special services based on those categories.
well, that's not really hard, is it? sending a copy of one e-mail to multiple recipients is possible from nearly every e-mail client available. the trick is to do it in an efficient manner and to follow a good e-mail etiquette. what complicated this little tutorial is that he uses eudora, on a mac.
i haven't used eudora for several years. which means i've never used it on a mac. fortunately, eudora can be downloaded and used for free, with only a few limitations.
i imported my settings and contact info from apple mail, and set to work looking around the eudora interface. upon opening the address book, i discovered i had to enable showing of the OS X address book. once done, i created a few alternate address books. i seem to remember there's a way to create "groups" in eudora, but this way was a little easier.
doing bulk mail this way forces the user to select the addresses in the address book. you can select multiple addresses by holding the command key as you select addresses. at the bottom of the address book panel, just click on the [Bcc:] button. Bcc:, of course, because you don't want everyone to see all the other recipients' addresses (that's the e-mail etiquette i was talking about).
NOTE: duplicate addresses will only get one copy. eudora is pretty smart about that, but it confused my client, as he was trying it out by sending copies to himself. i think we've got it working for him, now.
well, that's not really hard, is it? sending a copy of one e-mail to multiple recipients is possible from nearly every e-mail client available. the trick is to do it in an efficient manner and to follow a good e-mail etiquette. what complicated this little tutorial is that he uses eudora, on a mac.
i haven't used eudora for several years. which means i've never used it on a mac. fortunately, eudora can be downloaded and used for free, with only a few limitations.
i imported my settings and contact info from apple mail, and set to work looking around the eudora interface. upon opening the address book, i discovered i had to enable showing of the OS X address book. once done, i created a few alternate address books. i seem to remember there's a way to create "groups" in eudora, but this way was a little easier.
doing bulk mail this way forces the user to select the addresses in the address book. you can select multiple addresses by holding the command key as you select addresses. at the bottom of the address book panel, just click on the [Bcc:] button. Bcc:, of course, because you don't want everyone to see all the other recipients' addresses (that's the e-mail etiquette i was talking about).
NOTE: duplicate addresses will only get one copy. eudora is pretty smart about that, but it confused my client, as he was trying it out by sending copies to himself. i think we've got it working for him, now.
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