Mailing list software with easy to use GUI

Question

I'm looking for an easy to use making list program so, I can use my existing email to send to all the people on my list. I want to have it so I can send it with out them seeing each others email addresses and so I can have there names in the email, like a personalize emails you get when you sign up for stuff.

Also I would like for it to have a GUI.

Answer 1

GNU Mailman is the most popular. I looked at other mailing list software like phplist and dadamail as well. Here's my findings when I tested them a year ago:

GNU Mailman

• written in Python
• very widely used (Sourceforge, Ubuntu, Debian, and many other large scale installations in the wild)
• does not require a database
• primitive web ui but reliable
• package provided by just about every distribution, very easy to install
• very reliable bounce detection
• I still cannot create list from webui and must be done via shell. but all other admin tasks work fine for me
• I had to write a custom script to export subscriber lists for backup

phplist

• written in php
• nice web interface
• pretty easy to install
• pretty popular, many distribution provide packages
• requires mysql database
• I was alarmed by many reports of insecurity

dadamail

• written in perl (CGI)
• requires mysql database
• I never tested it as installation was difficult

I ended up with GNU Mailman and am very happy with it.

Answer 2

I haven't used it (although I intend to try it out soon), but the Mail Merge Thunderbird extension looks like it will do what you need. From the description:

If you send an e-mail to multiple recipients, there are three problems: First you are often not allowed to send one e-mail to more than 25 or 100 recipients at the same time. Second you don't want each recipient to see the other recipients. Third you can't personalize the e-mail. Mail Merge solves these problems!