SOCS, iSAMS and team sheets

[denzal2k4]

Good morning!

 

Might be a bit of a niche one but worth a shot....

 

We use SOCS for Sports Team sheets among other things, it has the ability to email team sheets out to parents, once send emails is clicked it proceeds to open Outlook with a BCC list of all the parents whose children are in the teams, our Sports dept use this a lot for all of the sports teams, it results in over 200 emails going out within a 1 hour period, this (I'm convinced) is resulting in us being marked as spam by the likes of Gmail and Outlook/Live/Hotmail resulting in our external emails to new starters, external contacts etc going to junk/spam. This is the preferred method by the PE team, and my alternatives of manually creating emails through iSAMS (which avoids spam detection) are a lot more work for them, so I suppose my question is, is there a way of sending these out without getting us marked as spam?

 

Any thoughts welcome!

[TechMonkey]

Shift the staff and parents to using the SOCS portal to access the Team sheets? If my memory serves me well, the Outlook option was more for emailing the parents of a single team to let them know something was changing, team is going to be late or further details, not as a mass mailer.

I also seem to remember there being an internal mailer option, Outlook was one of 2 options, so that may be an option. SOCS support maybe able to give options.

 

None of our Team sheets are set up so I can't test.

[denzal2k4]

Thanks Mr B. I thought there was another option as well but it only seems to be open in Outlook, we are going to switch to emailing pupils instead, and push parents to using the portal rather than being spoon fed. We shall see how this goes!