Which is the better open source or free email marketing tool for small business? PHPList, Infinite Responder, or something else?

VerticalResponse (verticalresponse.com) Tools You Already Have Outlook (or other email browsers): Outlook and other standard email browsers will certainly work to send a couple dozen emails. However, this method has some substantial disadvantages. First, putting lots of email addresses into the BCC field (the standard procedure for emailing a large, anonymous group) may cause your email to be flagged as Spam.

Second, it’s difficult to create complex formatting, like an eNews layout, that will show up in readers’ browsers as intended. And third, you’ll have to manually manage your list. There's a lot of effort involved in adding new subscribers, deleting those who ask to be removed and monitoring returned emails—remember, you are legally responsible for removing those people who request it.

If you send more than a few dozen emails at a time, or send to a list on a periodic basis, most of our contributors strongly advise you to look beyond standard email browsers. * Mailman (or other email list tools offered by your web host): If your Web site is hosted by a commercial shared hosting service, there is a good chance that your hosting package already includes Mailman—check your Web site control panel. This email list tool allows you to post a plain text or graphic message to a large distribution list by sending the message to a specific email address.

The downsides are that Mailman’s not the easiest tool to use, and it lacks several features common to other tools. For example, you can’t export your subscriber list, or access reports of how many readers opened an email or clicked on a link. If you’re sending more than a hundred or so emails at a time, again, look beyond these options.

Maybe you can try PHPKode Newsletter X online demo for more details. I just add one in my page and I found it was sophisticate at preventing sending spams.

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