Mailing list / newsletter hosts
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This page is for listing services that specialize in mailing list (or newsletter) hosting
I'm assuming the companies below do discussion or announcement lists. See below for announce-only specialists (none listed at moment).
Terminology:
- Discussion: means interaction among list subscribers
- Announce or newsletter: only list owner can send messages to the list (How to Write a Newsletter -- buying this guide supports this site!)
Support this site (investigate others, but if all else equal go with one of the following please):
- PMG by Mindshare Design offers Announce/Newsletter list delivery. They have many features, both standard and optional, so take a look!
- Send professional newsletters via Topica Email Publisher: try it for 30 days FREE!
- roving.com
Constant Contact¨ makes it easy for small businesses to realize the many benefits of email marketing. Constant Contact saves valuable time and resources by helping small businesses build their customer and site visitor database, and by creating and delivering professional email campaigns. It is an affordable and highly effective means for acquiring and retaining customers and increasing profitability.
- Uptilt.com offers newsletter hosting, web-boards, and other tools for web sites.
- ListChannel.Com Newsletters/Announce lists and autoresponders
- Vertical Response, Inc.
"Want an easy-to-use email marketing product at an incredibly affordable price?"
Bounce Handling:
- FreshAddress.com "Looking to build, correct and update your email list? FreshAddress, Inc. offers Email Address Validation, Email Appending, Email List Hygiene and Correction, and Email Change of Address (ECOA) services to help you grow your email database, bounce-proof your list, and keep it fresh and up-to-date."
- MailBounce for Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac OS (OS, OS X, OS X Server). "is the intelligent way to process bounces from Internet mailing lists. MailBounce is currently being used by list owners around the world, on lists ranging from 20 subscribers to more than ten million subscribers. It has successfully processed real-world bounce files in excess of 40 gigabytes, containing nearly two million unique bounce addresses. MailBounce recognizes more than 99% of all bounces in typical bounce files."
- SmartBounce Hosted Edition. SmartBounce can handle your bounces on an outsourced basis.
Discussion or announce list hosting:
- Check with your ISP or hosting provider to see if they offer mailing list hosting services.
- Renaissoft Enterprises
- BigList
- Binhost
- Cooldog
- Dolist is a French list hosting company.
- Dundee.net uses Lyris (accessible as mailing list or via newsreader) for business and personal (non-commercial discount) lists.
- EASE by LSoft, makers of Listserv software.
- Electric Messenger Service from Electric Mail
- emailto.com offers list hosting and branded webmail. Lists can be announcement or discussion, private or public, moderated or unmoderated.
- Esosoft
- Free-conversant is a web-based service that lets you create message boards which can be accessed via mailing list or via nntp. They have a free option, or with commercial option you can use your own domain.
- ListBox from IC Group.
- ListHost.net can do discussion or announcement lists as well as mail merge.
- ListPlex by LSoft, makers of Listserv software. Allows you to outsource lists or mail merge under your own domain name.
- Listserve.com (not associated with ListServ)
- Lyris ListManager. Discussion or newsletter. Supports virtual domains if you choose, meaning lists would be using your domain. Uses SmartBounce.
- Max E-Mailer
- Net Atlantic is a provider of Email Marketing Solutions, including Email Newsletter Hosting, Discussion Group Hosting and Web Hosting.
- PairList by Pair Networks. Scalability is unlimited, due
to the distributed, multi-server design. The powerful Web interface allows anyone to
manage their list quickly and easily.
- PostalManager.com "is an email list management and delivery service. Our service provides email list owners and publishers complete control and ownership over their database, message delivery and advertising space. Our customers will include opt-in list owners, publishers and marketers who use the service for distributing subscriber-based newsletters, e-zines, promotions and informational digests." See their unique list of features.
- SparkList! uses Lyris. Discussion or newsletter.
- SunCoast Web Majordomo.
- TalkList offers hosting using either LetterRip or Lyris.
- WeBeLists uses Lyris.
- WebCircle can design and implement modest sized lists.
- WebCrossing. You can buy their software, or they can host for you, either on your hardware or theirs. They also have optional community/list management features (i.e. their staff will welcome new members, handle abuse, etc.)
- win.net uses Majordomo
Announce-only/newsletter hosting:
- Email Club lets you have postcards at your retail location for people to sign up for your list.
- OptoMail, based in Japan. (English and Japanese web pages)
- Savicom
- emailforms by Tugnut offers you web-based e-mail merge with multiple customizable fields. (i.e. useful for more than just addressing the customer by name; you can add registration codes, billing data, etc.)
- Uptilt.com offers newsletter hosting, web-boards, and other tools for web sites.
Become a mailing list hosting provider: (let me know if you do!)
- Lyris ListManager by Lyris Technologies, Inc. has an easy to use web interface. Additionally, with the billing utility you can easily bill for the mailing lists you host. The Multiview feature makes it so that the mailing lists can be read and posted to via newsreading software.
Free services:
- CoolList
- Free-conversant is a web-based service that lets you create message boards which can be accessed via mailing list or via nntp. They have a free option, or with commercial option you can use your own domain.
- FreeLists "commercial-grade, no quotas, no advertisements, highly-configurable, web-based archiving. Our lists are all internet and technology-related."
- ListApp
- NotifyList.com announce only.
- VP Mail
- Yahoo groups
Archive services: (these sites do not host lists, but will archive lists for free)
List etiquette:
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