TigerTom's Bulk Email Software.

TigerTom's Bulk Email Software.

WARNING: This bulk email software is not suitable for spam (unsolicited commercial email). It does NOT use multi-threading, and DOES NOT have it's own built in SMTP server. Your 1,000,000 addresses spam mail-out will take a long time.

WARNING: If you bought lists of email addresses, you were cheated. They are bogus. They were computer generated, or harvested without permission from websites and discussion groups.

WARNING: If you bulk email email people who didn't give you permission, you will end up losing your web host account and internet connection. Your business name will stink. The person who sold the addresses to you lied to you. Demand a refund, or get your credit-card company to instigate a charge-back.

Only email people who expressly give you permission to do so (i.e. who opt-in to your mailing list).

Introducing TigerTom's Bulk Email Software; a mass email client. You can personalise each email with your subscriber's name, and speak to them directly. It imports from text or CSV databases. It's for PC's running Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP.

Bulk email software download page.

Pro:

• Simple to use;
• Personalise each email;
• Stable (doesn't crash);
• Free.

Con:

• Each email sent carries a small two-line advert for TigerTom.Com at the very bottom;
• Slow: Emails are sent one at a time*.

*i.e. about the same speed of any other program that doesn't have a built-in SMTP server. BUT, This means your bulk emails are more likely to be accepted by the recipient's ISP, as they won't show as being sent by unusual means. You send them via your email account, same as any other mail-out.

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TIPS: 1. Break up your mailing list into chunks of 300 or so. That way, if your mail-out breaks down half-way, you won't have to scroll through 5000 addresses to find out where to start again. 2. If you have a break-down, the program allows you to highlight and delete the emails already sent. 3 . Make sure your ISP supports bulk email. My cable modem account (NTLWorld.com) threw up an error message after 20 emails were sent, and for each email thereafter, in that send. I had a dial-up Virgin.net account, and an external 56k modem, and that worked fine. If the program seems to be throwing up error messages, try another email account. Error message codes: This list is arranged in numerical order. Scroll down to find yours. See Microsoft's WinSock Error Codes for more extensive documentation. 10004 WSAEINTR -- Interrupted function call. 10013 WSAEACCES -- Permission denied. 10014 WSAEFAULT -- Bad address. 10022 WSAEINVAL -- Invalid argument. 10024 WSAEMFILE -- Too many open files. Actually, it's too many open sockets. 10035 WSAEWOULDBLOCK -- Resource temporarily unavailable. 10036 WSAEINPROGRESS -- Operation now in progress. A blocking operation is in progress. 10037 WSAEALREADY -- Operation already in progress. 10038 WSAENOTSOCK -- Socket operation on non-socket. 10039 WSAEDESTADDRREQ -- Destination address required. 10040 WSAEMSGSIZE -- Message too long. 10041 WSAEPROTOTYPE -- Protocol wrong type for socket. 10042 WSAENOPROTOOPT -- Bad protocol option. 10043 WSAEPROTONOSUPPORT -- Protocol not supported. 10044 WSAESOCKTNOSUPPORT -- Socket type not supported. 10045 WSAEOPNOTSUPP -- Operation not supported. 10046 WSAEPFNOSUPPORT -- Protocol family not supported. 10047 WSAEAFNOSUPPORT -- Address family not supported by protocol family. 10048 WSAEADDRINUSE -- Address is already in use. If you attempt to set up a server on a port that is already is in use, you will get this error. 10049 WSAEADDRNOTAVAIL -- Cannot assign requested address. 10050 WSAENETDOWN -- Network is down. 10051 WSAENETUNREACH -- Network is unreachable. 10052 WSAENETRESET -- Network dropped connection on reset. 10053 WSAECONNABORTED -- Software caused the connection to abort. A connection that has been made was aborted, usually due to connection or protocol error. 10054 WSAECONNRESET -- Connection reset by peer. This occurs when an established connection is shut down for some reason by the remote computer. 10055 WSAENOBUFS -- No buffer space available. 10056 WSAEISCONN -- Socket is already connected. 10057 WSAENOTCONN -- Socket is not connected. 10058 WSAESHUTDOWN -- Cannot send after socket shutdown. 10060 WSAETIMEDOUT -- Connection timed out. 10061 WSAECONNREFUSED -- Connection refused. You will usually see this error when a server refuses a connection from a client, because the server is not listening on that port. 10064 WSAEHOSTDOWN -- Host is down. 10065 WSAEHOSTUNREACH -- No route to host. 10067 WSAEPROCLIM -- Too many processes. 10091 WSASYSNOTREADY -- Network subsystem is unavailable. 10092 WSAVERNOTSUPPORTED -- Unsupported version of WINSOCK.DLL. 10093 WSANOTINITIALISED -- Successful WSAStartup not yet performed. TCP networking has not been initialized on your computer. 10094 WSAEDISCON -- Graceful shutdown in progress. 11001 WSAHOST_NOT_FOUND -- Host not found. (DNS error.) 11002 WSATRY_AGAIN -- Non-authoritative host not found. Temporary DNS error. 11003 WSANO_RECOVERY -- Non-recoverable error. (DNS error.) 11004 WSANO_DATA -- Valid name, no data record of requested type. (DNS error).

 

TigerTom's Bulk Email Software v. 1.0 QUICK START.

---------- IMPORTING DATABASES ------------

The program expects to import delimited flat-file .txt or .csv databases, in the format:

FIRST NAME delimiter LAST NAME delimiter EMAIL ADDRESS

A delimiter is a character (or characters) that separates database fields. In this example the delimiter is a ‘pipe’ (the character | , bottom left of your keyboard):

Tom|O’Donnell|tom@tigrtom.com
Jerry|Springer|jerry.springer@telvision.com
George|Bush|GeorgeBush@whitehous.gov

The data in a .csv (Comma Separated Values) file looks like this:

Tom,,O’Donnell,,tom@tigrtom.com
Jerry,,Springer,,jerry.springer@telvision.com
George,,Bush,,GeorgeBush@whithouse.gov

TIP:

Microsoft Excel can make CSV files.

TIP:

My own mailing list database is in the format: NAME|EMAIL ADDRESS, so I use a text editor’s search and replace function to insert a blank field so that my bulk email software program can import my database e.g.

NAME| |EMAIL ADDRESS

TIP:

If your database contains email addresses only, insert two blank fields e.g.

| |EMAIL ADDRESS

The bulk email software allows you to select which of the three fields in the database contains the email address, first name and second name, after you import it.

------------ WRITING YOUR EMAIL ------------

The Macros heading in the program allows you to personalise your mail-out by inserting the subscriber’s FIRST NAME, LAST NAME and EMAIL address wherever you want in the text of each email e.g.

“Dear %FNAME%,

Your surname is %LNAME%, and I am sending you this to
your email address %EMAIL%, I hope that's OK?”

You can type these into the email yourself by hand also.

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