Bulk Mailing question

[Ian Scotson <iscotson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

A non-as400 question.
Hope its OK for this list.

My retail marketing dept wish to send out about 3000
emails - same content to each recipient.

Basically a "Special Sale on now" type.

I know it sounds a bit like spam, but it is actually
targeted to specific retail clients.

We have an email server called MDAEMON, and an
ADSL connection ( 1.5/256 ).

MDaemon seems to support what it calls Mailing Lists, 
even from an ODBC source ( handy..). This seems to support
at least the same basic functions as the Midrange-l list, although
all im after is a way to bulk send about 3000 emails efficiently.
Its not meant to be a BBS like Midrange-l.

The ability to let clients "subscribe/unsubscribe" automatically 
does sound nice though. 

However, it talks about not sending any more than about 20
directly from your own server direct, but via a "Smart Host"
option,  using the SMTP server of the ISP, using 1 email and
multiple "Recpt To" cmds ( 3000?). The system will handle
this itself with the appropriate selection. It also talks about 
some ISP's having limits on how many of these types of 
msgs as a guard against spammers.

Does this sound typically how these things are done? Or are 
they done some other way, using other technology?

(something done on a el-cheapo linux box?)

I get a number of newsletter-type email from as400 sources that 
must have many hundreds, if not thousands on their lists, so it cant
be that hard. 


Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated



Regards


Ian Scotson.