If your looking to start a newsletter or simply organize your current mailing system I recommend you check out PoMMo, formerly bMail project. Basically PoMMo is a mass mailing program that will allow you to track, organize and reply to all of your subscribers with ease. It stores all of its information in a sql database and provides a attractive management panel that makes setup and mailing a breeze.
Want to see it in action? Sign up for The State of Affairs newsletter! Also the team over at PoMMo has set up a demonstration account at http://try.pommo.org/ so you can get a feel for the admin panel to see how great it actually works.
One of the nicest features I have found is the option to group subscribers into different catagories so you don’t have to send the same email to every subscriber. You can actually customize a different email to send to one group and send a completely different one to another.
PoMMo is freely provided under the GPL. I will admit PoMMo has some small flaws in it here and there, but what software doesn’t? Especially free software. So far it has worked without a hitch since I launched it a month ago so I think its fair enough to say I recommend you give it a try if your looking into starting a mailing list or newsletter and are trying to avoided that whole “cost” thing.
Read more about PoMMo on their Homepage.
Let me know about your experiances with PoMMo here by leaving a comment
I am studying website design and would love to be able to confidently install pommo’s email service. Do you have a guide on how to download and install it? I’ve been to the site, seen a demonstration. But I need a guide on how to actually install. As in, Step 1… Step 2..
Thanks.
On the Pommo site there is documention on how to install it step by step.
Here is the link
http://pommo.org/Install