Bulk Emailling

In addition, Animal Shelter Manager allows you to bulk email any mail merge source directly - all you need is access to a SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) email server. ALL ISPs (with the exception of AOL) grant you this facility. If you are an AOL user, you will need to install a mail transport yourself.

All ASM needs to know is the return address you would like stamped on the outgoing emails and the IP address/hostname of the SMTP server to use (usually smtp.<your ISP name>.com). Set these in System->Options (under the Email tab)

At the end of mail merge source generation, you will be asked if you want to create a file based source for other programs, or bulk email all the addresses in the source. If you choose the latter, ASM will pop up its own internal email client with a list of fields available in the source so you can customise the email for each individual user by using the mail merge keys.

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