HACKER Q&A
📣 chirau

How can I send mail to a 50k+ emailing list?


I have about a dozen email lists hosted virtually ,each has about 50K emails. I formulate newsletters in Outlook in HTML and then send them out to each list. The lists are hosted by a company using Mailman 2.0 software, which I can use to subtract unsubscribes and also add new lists. I email of course legally in compliance with the Can Spam Act. I need to find another company to supply this hosting service and I can use a different software. They are not opt-in lists.

Is there any custom setup or even paid third party service that I can use for this? How would I set it up?


  👤 bombcar Accepted Answer ✓
> They are not opt-in lists.

What exactly does this mean?

Anyway, all the big mailing companies (spamgrid, hubspam, etc) offer the ability to "lie and import" a list of contacts where you swear on your ancestors that you have permission to send to them.


👤 yuppie_scum
How can you legally email to a list of people who haven’t opted in? Are you talking about transactional emails? (Receipts, etc?) or is this code for “I’m a spammer.”

Anyway.. sendgrid, AWS SES are good places to start.