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[_] Bulk email?

Dave Hodgkinson davehodg at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 10:45:57 GMT 2007

HM, the custom app is what I'm trying to avoid at the moment.

Normally, I'd use mailman.

What appealed to me about phplist was the ability to integrate with
an existing database.

Any other contenders out there?

On 2 Mar 2007, at 10:36, Chris Neale wrote:

> We've used PHPList for about the last year or so - it does the job,  
> but in
> my 'umble opinion I found the user interface awkward to use and the
> documentation was severely lacking, especially for features such as  
> click
> tracking. It's quirky and has usability problems: config pages that  
> require
> you to type boolean parameters in in the form of Yes or No in some  
> *text*
> boxes and then 1 or 0 in others (but it lets you discover that for
> yourself!). More importantly, some of our users have had problems  
> with the
> unsubscribe option which is shabby.
>
> It's basically a wrapper for the open-source PHPMailer class - so  
> if you've
> got some PHP skills, you might find it easier to knock together a  
> custom
> application.
>
> C
>
>
> On 01/03/07, Dave Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Any opinions on PHPlist?
>>
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