sending "newsletter" emails to many people - what solution for a smtp server?

[tfboy]

I can't figure out the best approach for this...

My father runs a small business where he needs to send out perhaps once a week a newsletter of the the events taking place.

The problem is that there are around 150 to 200 recipients of this newsletter email and that's turning out to be a big problem.

I understand for various reasons such as flagging as spam, loading, etc, it can be tricky, but in my brief searching on the net, I've run out of ideas.

His ISP (newnet) only allow sending emails to about 20 people at a time.
His hosting provider (123reg) offer smtp servers, but they limit to 100 emails / hour and 1000 per day.
A quick search for various 3rd party providers has been inconclusive - either they're expensive, or have similar limits.

He doesn't need a 3rd party email host, specifically, he doesn't want his incoming email to change. He doesn't need an external mailbox, etc. All he needs is an smtp server allowing sending emails to a large number of recipients.

So what can you suggest?

The only think I can think of is having a smtp mail server installed on his local machine and providing mx records and dns so it can do the sending. Or maybe install an smtp server on his hosting website? (there's php, perl, mysql, etc available).

Any other options?

Thanks

[gss03]

www.icontact.com

Cheap solution for what you require and dead simple to upload your list/ content to.