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Looking for Email Service for instant info?

by Tekstar
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Does anyone know of an email service where I can setup email addresses that when someone sends a message to it, it will return some information to the sender instantly. Sort of like an autoresponder but I'm not looking to capture email addresses, just send info back info to them.

For the subscription part I would like to have it so someone sends an email to a specific address(not a signup form) and then it will subscribe them(double opt in) and then I can use an autoresponder feature to have them receive messages on a scheduled basis.

I have been searching and the big guys dont do this and I havent found any other providers for something like this. I'd even be willing to buy software and host this myself if it is available somewhere.

Anyone seen anything like this?

Thanks.

-Bob
#email #info #instant #service
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Tekstar View Post

    Does anyone know of an email service where I can setup email addresses that when someone sends a message to it
    Some registrars offer this facility, using an email address at yourdomain.com, which sends a single automated response, without requiring hosting of the domain-name.

    For a hosted domain, I think you can probably set it up through C-Panel?

    I think Yahoo email certainly used to offer this facility, too. And I'd imagine that many more do, too.

    Originally Posted by Tekstar View Post

    For the subscription part I would like to have it so someone sends an email to a specific address(not a signup form) and then it will subscribe them(double opt in)
    I don't know. I may be wrong, but unless I've misunderstood what you're asking, I can't see a commercial autoresponder company offering such a service (it might cause a lot of problems?). My guess is that this would have to be self-hosted?
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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      For the first question, Alexa's spot on.

      Most of the popular control panels (and many proprietary ones) used by web-hosts provide such a feature. It could come under the name of a "vacation message", "holiday message", "vacation responder", "auto responder", or whatever. If you have a web-host already, look through their control panel and chances are you'll find some equivalent feature.

      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      I don't know. I may be wrong, but unless I've misunderstood what you're asking, I can't see a commercial autoresponder company offering such a service (it might cause a lot of problems?). My guess is that this would have to be self-hosted?
      I've never tried it myself, but it appears that AWeber and most other autoresponder companies do provide this sort of functionality. (See here for brief explanation at AWeber.) It's just not widely used these days, what with web-forms being far more convenient.

      Granted, the above uses an email address at the service-provider's domain. If you wanted to use a custom email address, you might be able to set up another email forwarder for this purpose at your domain registrar or web-host. It might still work? Couldn't say either way, having never tested it.

      I seem to recall reading, too (might've been elsewhere, perhaps at GetResponse?), that any subscribers opting in via this method have to confirm. In other words, single opt-in isn't a choice, unlike with web-forms.

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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by DireStraits View Post

        it appears that AWeber and most other autoresponder companies do provide this sort of functionality. (See here for brief explanation at AWeber.) It's just not widely used these days, what with web-forms being far more convenient.
        Ooh, yes ... you're right; I do vaguely remember seeing this before (and probably not quite understanding it!). Yes, they'll surely have to confirm their opt-in?

        Originally Posted by DireStraits View Post

        Granted, the above uses an email address at the service-provider's domain. If you wanted to use a custom email address, you might be able to set up another email forwarder for this purpose at your domain registrar or web-host. It might still work? Couldn't say either way, having never tested it.
        Yes ... maybe. Interesting.
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        • Profile picture of the author Tekstar
          Hmm, I'm going to check through my cpanel to see if there is anything like that. I'll look over the link at Aweber that was listed as well to see if I missed something. I realize that I am asking for an out of the box solution to all of this so it might be difficult to get what I am after but I figured if anyone has found anything remote it would be one of the other Warriors.

          Thanks,

          -Bob
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          • Profile picture of the author Tekstar
            So my cpanel does have autoresponders in it and I am going to give that a shot. I do like that Aweber can have you subscribe by email address as well as a web form, but I didnt see that Aweber could use anything other than the Aweber domain and not my own domain which for branding purposes is a tough sell. Nothing is perfect so I'm going to keep searching for a solution.

            Thanks
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