Email forwarding

January 30, 2007 2:06 AM

Looking for an online email forwarding service that can deal with forwarding to multiple addresses.

I do some work volunteer work for an organisation that has over 100 members, and we need to be able to send out emails to peoples personal addresses.
We have our own domain name and the registrar provides email forwarding but only to one or two addresses at a time. What I really need is an online forwarding package that I can use to forward [e-mail] onto a dozen or so private addresses, [e-mail] onto >100 addresses etc, etc (Would move to another registrar if you know of one that would do this).

I did almost consider the idea of installing small business server because of the number of email distribution groups required, but it seems a little like overkill as we have no need for a network or domain, nor do I particularly want to host an exchange server. Would want to avoid things like yahoo groups if possible - apart from all the annoying ads on the emails, because of the number of lists required, I'm not sure those basic mailing lists would do the job.

Free would be great, but not essential as I would want to be sure that the email don't end up on someone's spam list somewhere.

If anyone has any ideas that would be great. Many thanks!

posted by qwerty155 to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Such a system is being developped for enhanced users with fastmail.fm. See this thread on the official forum.
posted by rom1 at 3:12 AM on January 30, 2007

If you already have a domain and email, you really only need good mailing list software. We have one at work that we use to send messages to a list of about 50 customers. Each message gets sent individually by the software, allowing for a more personalized approach, and keeping the messages out of spam filters.

It should be fairly easy to find a package directed at non-profits. I came up with this by just googling around a bit.
posted by SteveInMaine at 3:50 AM on January 30, 2007

1. Open Gmail account ([e-mail])
2. Forward [e-mail] to [e-mail]
3. In Gmail, create filter that forwards email from [e-mail] to your >100 addresses etc.
4. You're done.

If you need a gmail invite, or have more questions, email my profile address.
posted by gavia at 8:06 AM on January 30, 2007

mailman is one of the most/more popular mailling list programs out there. It'll require some technical knowledge though, but it's very powerful.
posted by edjusted at 9:05 AM on January 30, 2007

Wouldn't GoogleGroups be more effective than a fancy forwarding filter?
posted by canine epigram at 9:24 AM on January 30, 2007