[epub] Re: Looking for ezine program for non-techies

[Jeff Newton <jpnewton@xxxxxxx>]

There were two other programs that I took for a test drive that might be 
worth mentioning.  Both have a 30 day demo that you can download for the 
trial period.

http://www.newsletterease.com/   Newsletterease - I started to demo this 
one, and I liked how it handled bounced messages and unsubscribes.  By the 
time I got back to it, the 30 day trial date had run out.  It's been a 
while since I did a demo on this program.  When I requested another 
download, they sent me the download link, but when I reinstalled, it let me 
know that the 30 day demo was expired.  So I didn't complete the demo 
process.  $499.00 for the premier version, more for the others.

http://www.emill.net/emill.htm  Emill also seemed to be a neat 
program.  Has a built in html editor with a viewer for html code and 
preview of the finished email. (like Dreamweaver does)  I liked this 
feature, although it *did* want to access MS Word/Frontpage for some 
reason.  I didn't like the way it sent out email messages -- most of the 
test messages to hotmail didn't get sent or were not delivered.  I ended up 
setting up a mailing list group on my mail server (Mdaemon) and sending to 
the 1 address of email group and having Mdaemon send out the emails. That 
worked for me, but seemed like an extra unnecessary step just to get ALL 
the email sent.  It also seemed like a lot of work to get all of the config 
settings taken care of.  $499.00 for the pro version, more for the others.

Of course I have no interest in any of these programs, but I also am 
searching for the perfect solution.  I would like to see good tracking on 
delivered/viewed and bounce/unsubscribes.  I plan on installing phplist 
this week and giving it the work-over.  If it does the trick, free sounds 
like a good price. ;-)
I'll report back here on my phplist test drive.

Jeff