Now, I must confess I really don't care about your purpose. The fact is that, once you're here, you want to know what's the best bulk email software for Mac, or at least get a piece of code to play with, right?
R10BatchMail has just come out of Beta, and this is exactly the kind of program you need. You can easily employ it to send a newletter, let others know of your change of address, marketing, or initiate a gathering around the table full of beer... but it's more than just that, obviously.
The long list of R10BatchMail features looks like this:
- Supports HTML and Plain Text Email
- Minimal configuration
- Email Addresses imported from a Tab Delimited File
- Import Contacts from Apple Address Book
- Combine Email Addresses from Multiple Sources
- The Contact List can be Edited directly
- Columns can be sorted
- The HTML Message can be previewed within R10BatchMail
- Message text can be dragged/dropped from within another document
- Message can be created in any HTML page editor and 'direct linked'
- A text file can be dropped over the message input area
- Select Some or All of your Imported Contacts
- Remove Selected Contacts
- Export the Contact List
- Session History can be Exported to XLS, TAB or CSV
- To help with Proof Reading R10BatchMail can Speak your message
- Most Actions have a Keyboard Shortcut
- Remembers the Window Sizes and Positions
Available as Universal Binary code for both PowerPC and Intel, R10BatchMail requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later, a G4 processor at 1GHz, and at least 20 MB of hard drive space.
There are three editions available - a free one, adding a link to the producer's website at the footer of each message, Standard, priced at £25, and Site License, available for £100, all waiting for you to get'em at the official website.