[Systems] e-mail blast query

[Bernie Innocenti]

Dave Crossland recommends Mail Chimp, which seems to be specifically  for mass mailings. Would it work for you?


On May 2, 2016 8:46:14 AM EDT, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Bernie, please don't get excited, I don't want an argument. The
>issue is
>not receiving an e-mail, it's mass mailing and I'm not able to do that
>anymore, that's all.
>
>Sean
>
>
>On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Bernie Innocenti
><bernie at sugarlabs.org>
>wrote:
>
>> On 04/29/2016 07:05 AM, Sean DALY wrote:
>> > Hi Chris,
>> >
>> > historically I used the Google docs instance to send e-mails from
>> > pr at sugarlabs.org <mailto:pr at sugarlabs.org>, but it was decided to
>end
>> > support for that so I don't have a suggestion, sorry.
>>
>> Oh christ, you still blame this on us?
>>
>> pr at sugarlabs.org is and always has been forwarded to you at
>> sdaly.sugarlabs at gmail.com, which presumably you control. So what's
>the
>> issue?
>>
>>
>> > Sean
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Chris Leonard
><cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >      Hi Sean and systems folks,
>> >
>> >     I've recovered the 2800-odd user e-mails from the old Pootle
>instance
>> >     (the user table was not migrated) and I want to send out an
>e-mail
>> >     blast inviting them to re-register and begin translating for SL
>> again.
>> >     Currently the list in in spreadsheet format, but I can
>obviously
>> >     reconfigure as needed,  I've got fields like their previous
>> user-name,
>> >     firtstname, lastname, e-mail address that I would like to use
>to
>> >     customize the messages.
>> >
>> >     I do NOT want to just recreate the user accounts on Pootle, at
>this
>> >     point, I'd prefer an affirmative action on their part to rejoin
>our
>> >     L10n community.  I don't really want to drop them into the L10n
>> >     mailman list and make them unsubscribe, that just seems
>obnoxious.
>> >
>> >     I don't want to get labeled as a spammer, but I'd like to send
>as
>> >     cjl at sugarlabs.org <mailto:cjl at sugarlabs.org> (if feasible).
>> >
>> >     I'm looking for suggestions on tools/services to do the
>mail-merge
>> and
>> >     blast.  I see this as more-or-less a one-time effort to invite
>them
>> to
>> >     come home to our L10n community.
>> >
>> >     TIA,
>> >
>> >     cjl
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Bernie Innocenti
>> Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team
>>

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