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I'm thinking 1-2-All Email Marketing from ActiveCampaign. So far, they are cheapest with a one time license fee for lite version ($97).

Grace

Bit pricey

I guess I'm not big on services like that.  I know something like that would be a complete waste with me since I never look at mail in HTML format and never ever allow acks to be sent.   I know I'm probably the exception though.

We currently use 1-2-All ourselves after switching from an Internal application used for over six years.  However like most things in life both managed and unmanaged have their advantages.

With unmanaged you run it on your own equipment and have total control over your database.  The main two downsides are for many people working with installing applications can be confusing, but since you are here at CCP's Forum you are a step above the average Netizen.  ;-).  The main draw back, IMO, and this is based on experience is email delivery.  It seems, like it or not, email is fast headed to whitelisting.  You must pay to play sort of thing.

We have ten's of thousands of subscribers and spend a lot of time fighting with ISPs to keep our dedicated IPs clean.  We don't spam and have "won" every case.  I say "won" because the amount of time that can go into the fight can be dozens of hours and back and forth emails.  In on example we were banned by a company because one person complained after receiving emails from us for seven months.  We tracked about 1,000's other addresses and had been emailing their network for over two years with zero complaints.  Yet after one complain boom we were banned.  Yeah that is reasonable.

With the hosted services like Aweber they keep their IPs clean.  Well mostly.  Of course they have your database and not you.

We still opted for our own unmanaged solution, but it does come at a cost.  We are looking into just joining one of those whitelist companies as it looks like the future is bleak for those that don't.

grabie wrote:

I'm thinking 1-2-All Email Marketing from ActiveCampaign. So far, they are cheapest with a one time license fee for lite version ($97).

Grace

I found this thread today when searching for email newsletter information with regards to CCP6. But, WOW the price for the LITE version has doubled in a year - it's now $189! Has anyone tried this software with CCP6?

Better yet, is there a possibility of an XMOD  will make it easy to create professional-looking HTML email newsletters?

Thanks,
Cyndi

If you don't mind free, you could try pommo.  I use it and it's great. You can control how many emails go out per hour so you don't upset your hosting company.