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    Marc Clifton
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    Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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      Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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      Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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      You can actually try using Calypso Email Client that has mailing list capability. It was originally McsDallas product now managed by RoseCitySoftware. Calypso is now free. It has a feature called 'BlindSend' which I guess, would address your requirement. But again, your email server administrator should allow relay right? Or you can have your own email server connected and delivering direct.

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      • M Marc Clifton

        Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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        Chris Buckett
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        It doesn't entirely answer the question, but my sons school uses www.parentmail.co.uk[^] to send mail home to parents. It's an online service that lets schools mail parents with full audit trail. I'm not sure if it's UK only, though.

        ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

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        • M Marc Clifton

          Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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          David Crow
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          I've used a few tools from here.


          "A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow

          "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

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            Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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            Rage
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            Marc Clifton wrote:

            Outlook

            Maybe using a macro ?

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            • M Marc Clifton

              Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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              nitikin
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              You might want to check out the free version of EmailExtractor

              namaste, Nitin Koshy http://devwaves.blogspot.com ...and I thought I knew

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              • M Marc Clifton

                Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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                Try this [^]

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                  Try this [^]

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                  Marc Clifton
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                  Richard A. Abbott wrote:

                  Try this [^]

                  Anything in the bcc field is rejected by the service provider. Marc

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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                    If you have access to an Apache server the following PERL script will do the job. The script must have execute permissions (755) to be executed with a crontab entry. Note - the shell escape is a back-single-quote (`), not a regular single quote ('). =================================================================================== #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $|++; # needed to run in a browser - remove if executed by a script print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"; my $from = "mailadmin@your-domain.com"; my $subject = "subject-today"; # or cat a file containing the subject line my $msg= `cat msg-today.txt`; # file containing today's email body my $sendmail = "/usr/lib/sendmail"; foreach(`cat mailing-list.txt`){ # file containing mailing list email addresses open(MAIL, "|$sendmail -oi -t"); print MAIL "From: $from\n"; print MAIL "To: $_\n"; print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n"; print MAIL "$msg\n"; close(MAIL); } exit(0); ===================================================================================

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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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                      http://www.freelists.org/[^]

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                      • D David Crow

                        I've used a few tools from here.


                        "A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow

                        "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

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                        DavidCrow wrote:

                        I've used a few tools from here.

                        THAT's what I was looking for. The "Send Personally" plugins. Thanks! Marc

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                        • M Marc Clifton

                          Here's the problem. My son's school sends out weekly calendars, monthly newsletters, etc. Their web host refuses to send bulk emails with bcc's. The website guy mentioned that there are programs that hook into Outlook that take a bulk email with lots of cc's and/or bcc's and sends them out individually with the correct "to" recipient. Anyone use one of these? Any recommendations? Marc

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                          Bassam Abdul Baki
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                          Getting your son to do your spamming for you? That's low Marc. :sigh:


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                            Getting your son to do your spamming for you? That's low Marc. :sigh:


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                            Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

                            Getting your son to do your spamming for you? That's low Marc.

                            Erm, I'm glad there was a joke icon on that post. :) Marc

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                              Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

                              Getting your son to do your spamming for you? That's low Marc.

                              Erm, I'm glad there was a joke icon on that post. :) Marc

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                              Bassam Abdul Baki
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                              Marc Clifton wrote:

                              Erm, I'm glad there was a joke icon on that post.

                              Missed it for a second, did we? :laugh:


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                              • M Marc Clifton

                                Richard A. Abbott wrote:

                                Try this [^]

                                Anything in the bcc field is rejected by the service provider. Marc

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                                Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                                Calypso BlindSend does not use BCC. It rather sends out unique emails for everybody.

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                                • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

                                  Calypso BlindSend does not use BCC. It rather sends out unique emails for everybody.

                                  Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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                                  Marc Clifton
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                                  Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:

                                  Calypso

                                  This has to be a solution that works with Outlook. Marc

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