Anyone here have experience of managing address databases?

Question

I'm starting up a not for profit organisation and have a lot of email and mail addys of people interested. At the moment, they are all stored in Yahoo! but Yahoo! does not allow me to send a newsletter to more than a handful of people at a time due to spam concerns. I am wondering if anyone here either works with address databases and newsletters or manages such a system?

I need:

-The facility to compose a newsletter easily

-A good database which includes all categories, inc email, phone and mail addresses

-A system which will allow me to send the newsletter to everyone, regardless of the amount of emails

I'd really like to start off as I intend to go on so any advice would be much appreciated. Incidentally, I don't have Outlook Express. I deleted it thinking that Yahoo! would be sufficient! PS. the solution has to be easy cos I am useless when it comes to technology!

Answer 1

the solution for ur problem is,,, microsoft access...

using this, u can create a database,,, including everything u require,,
it allows u to send individual and multiple emails at a time,,
and it has got a million other facilities that u might not even require,,,

go for it,,
ask any computer student to do this job for u,,,, this shud not cost too much,,,,,,
else, send the data to me,,i will do it for free,,,

thanx

Answer 2

Outlook Express comes standard with Windows so you should be able to reinsatll from your Windows CD.

For your mailing database you could use a number of things. Assuming you already have Microsoft Office you will already have Word and Excel. You can put all your addresses in either Word or Excel, then use the Word MailMerge function to create a single mailshot for each person.

Alternatively you could use MS Access - but this isn't included in the basic version of MS Office, so it will involve some expenditure if you don't already have it.

Answer 3

I have designed at database containing everybody's name,address,home phone,mobile,work number and there d.o.b it took me three days to collate all this and its in excel and it depends on if you want to send a newsletter out via email or snail mail cause you could use mail merge using the excel

Answer 4

use mysql