Forum Email Issues

[Bulldog Stang]

Ok, here is my issue.

I have been using vBulletin for a long time now. I have been with my current Host Server for a long time as well (about 4-5 years). I have been sending emails out this entire time from within vbulletin and recently discovered that I have over 850,000 emails that have been sent back to me. I have also learned that my server or ip address has been blacklisted by google, yahoo, hotmail, etc .... I understand that getting off the blacklist is nearly impossible. So I decided to go another route.

Now, I have purchased an email program through GoDaddy and I got the Ultimate package that has 10 emails and unlimited storage.

How can I integrate this into my vBulletin Software? Also, how do I add an unsubscribe link so that this won't happen again?

I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to the whole email thing, so I would really appreciate any advice and suggestions on how I can send periodic emails to my 5000+ members without having emails returned to me from the above mentioned sites telling me that my email has been rejected. I also want it to where they can click a link within that email where they will be removed from any future emails as well if they do not want to be notified of my emails or newsletters.

Any help or suggestions on how to do this is very much appreciated!!!!!!

Brian

[Videx]

I don't know. But I know I would never try to use vb to send out emails to all my members; it's forum software, not email bulletin software.

The periodic birthday notices are hard enough to handle. My co-admin is in charge of checking bounced emails monthly and dealing with them.