[handyman]

Hi,

We run our own smtp server off a static ip address on business broadband. I have a list of 15,000 odd email address's of corparate IT managers and public sector it managers etc and I'd like to send out a introduction email with the opurtunity to remove themselves from the list and also possibly a competion to encourage them to come forward with further contact details also we will be including the option to recieve freebies.

We run a dedicated email news program but thats limited to 10,000 emails per month and we have a client base of 3000 which we send out a fortnightly newsletter too so I cannot use that.

What I would like to do is send them via our own smtp server but I'm wondering a few things.

1. How long will this take to process through the server (Dell poweredge 800/ 1.5gb ram)
2. Will this get flagged as spam? If so how so and will our ip get blocked.

Are there any other (free) ways of doing this.

Cheers peeps

mark