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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Again, this reinforces you do not know what you're talking about when it comes to an MTA and what is out there on the market. Many, not all, already offer this stuff built in. You can track your openers, clickers, unsubs, FBL's, and all of that. You can segment your lists, build your creatives, import them from ad networks via their API's and so on. It all can be done within the MTA. You can even manage your ip reputation and rotations to keep the from getting BL'd in the first place if you are running clean lists.
Exactly.
You're getting sidetracked with nonsense. That was not my point at all.
It sounds like you do not know a lot about mailing making such comments. That being said, I have a lot of experience and am simply trying to help the O.P. in looking at all solutions available so they can pick what is best for them. I do not have any dog in this fight other than years of experience. I am not trying to shill a product, nor do I have any ego or machismo involved as I do not get paid to win web duels.
With that being said, unless you know about both ESP and hosting your own mail solutions, you do not know what you're talking about. However, if something like Amazon has worked out well for Razorharpe and the little newsletter he sends, that's great!! However, as I said, it is not a fit for everyone and there are other options available out there. Both hosted, and otherwise.
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I suppose someone had to say exactly what I've been saying but make an argument of it, veiled insults included. This wouldn't be GFY if it didn't happen.
I'm your average user on GFY, my suggestions were aimed at the average user. Not more than a handful of users on this forum are sending any more than 500K to a million emails a month so it made sense (to me) to provide practical, usable, tested suggestions.
Like most average users, I'm not a mailing guru. I want software that doesn't cost me an arm and a leg and that is basically point and click to handle my mailings. Why would I want to get into the nuts and bolts of setting up and configuring some overly complicated MTA that has all the bells and whistles for my "little newsletter"?
So far in this thread I've offered verifiable suggestions that have worked for me. Is it for everyone? Maybe not. All you've done is try to insult people and try to prove that you're the dog's bollocks when it comes it mailing. What use is telling someone to do something like mailing in-house without offering any suggestions on how he/she could achieve this. So sorry, you're not "simply trying to help the O.P. in looking at all solutions available so they can pick what is best for them" ....
I'll leave you to make your inevitable reply, as far as I'm concerned this has just become a thread with a lot of dick swinging and I don't really want any part of it. I need to get back to trying to make my "little newsletter" a "little" bigger ....