Bulk Mailing

[Katy]

How do you do bulk mailing? We use the built in features on our MIS for spamming out to parents, but the guy who looks after the alumni group wants to mail all his contacts and is trying from outlook (obviously failing as it's nearly 3000 addresses). Most of these aren't in the "past pupils" section of the MIS as they pre-date it, so how does everyone else do this kind of thing? Hoping for something that's free.

[Sibrows]

We use MailChimp for various functions including this one. You may be able to make the free tier work by carving up some of your lists.

[TTG_Alice]

Same as what @Sibrows says. Mailchimp is an easy and sometimes free email platform to use

https://mailchimp.com/