Thanks Howie. I think that should get me started. I just spent about an
hour looking through the archives too, and picked up some info there.
I'd just like to summarize my understanding, and ask for your (and/or the
list's) confirmation and feedback:
CFX_iMSMail is not really an exact replacement for CFMAIL, in that it cannot
produce customized emails the same way. With CFMAIL you can call the tag
once, and produce a number of customized emails based on fields included in
a query. With CFX_iMSMail you need to call the tag for _each_ individual
custom email.
The best way to do the above with CFX_iMSMail is to do a CFLOOP on your
query. Within the loop you would set a variable to the body text (which you
would dynamically generate), and then pass that variable to the BODY=
attribute of the CFX_iMSMail tag.
Is that the best way to do it? And if so, what are the performance
implications (i.e., is it advisable to do this if you are producing
thousands of emails)?
A couple of other questions:
1. Is the current version of the CFX Tag (version 2.3, dated December 15,
2000) thread-safe, or should CFLOCK be used with it?
2. Are there any known issues with running iMS Post-SE on the same machine
as SQL Server 2000 (its use would be minimal)?
Thanks again for your help,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: March 27, 2001 4:59 PM
To: Bob Silverberg
Subject: Fw: [ODS Support] Any Newbie Resources for iMS Post-SE?
Here are my answers to your questions. Please let me know if you have any
additional questions. The best way to get answers, though, is on the iMS
support list.
Regards,
Howie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howie Hamlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ODS Support] Any Newbie Resources for iMS Post-SE?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Silverberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "ODS Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:12 PM
> Subject: [ODS Support] Any Newbie Resources for iMS Post-SE?
>
>
> > I just downloaded the Post-SE component and have read through all of the
> > documentation (user guide and CFX documentation), but I'm still somewhat
> in
> > the dark. Are there any resources available, such as sample code, that
> > shows how to use ColdFusion to interact with Post-SE?
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > - I don't see any examples of POSTWarn or POSTFail templates. What are
> > these supposed to look like, and can they be customized based on
> parameters
> > in the emails being sent?
>
> Here is a list mail that has this info:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02326.html
>
> > - Is there any documentation on the COM interface(s)?
>
> The documentation is included in the archive:
>
> ftp://ftp.coolfusion.com/pub/ods/ims/beta/imsmailcom10beta1.zip
>
> > - I don't understand how I would generate dynamic emails based on the
> > contents of a query. I can see that the QUERYFIELD attribute of the CFX
> tag
> > is used to indicate which field contains the email address, but what if
I
> > also want to print each user's name (which is in a separate query
field)?
> >
>
> Currently you need to loop over the list of recipients to customize the
mail
> for each recipient. We're looking at including a far better mechanism in
> iMS 2.1 or 2.5.
>
> > Those are just the first couple of what I'm sure will be many questions.
> I
> > really hope that there are some resources out there that can clear these
> up.
> > The existing documentation seems to be very inadequate in this area.
> >
>
> You may also want to join the iMS support list at:
>
> https://www.coolfusion.com/iMSSupport.cfm
>
> Regards,
>
> Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager
> On-Line Data Solutions, Inc.
> www.CoolFusion.com
> 631-737-4668 x101
> inFusion Mail Server (iMS) - the World's most configurable mail server
> Get your free copy of iMS POST-SE Server from CoolFusion!
>
>
> > Thanks in advance for any help you can give,
> > Bob
> >
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