I wrote an emailer application years ago which uses the wwipstuff tools from West Wind since it came free with West Wind's Web Connection. It basically keeps a database of email records, and sends out records not already flagged as sent. The code to send the email is really simple as their help file shows. I also wrote some throttling code so that it wouldn't try to send 500 mails at a time as I noted that anything more than 50 a second would often choke the smtp server.
The great thing about the database approach to emailing is having full auditing log and of course resend capability. The client loves being able to know if the email was really sent or not to their customer and exactly when it was sent. HTH- Steve At 11:10 AM 08/04/2009, you wrote: >Our clients (Sylvan learning centers) want to harvest the email >addresses in their in-center database and send out quick emails to their >customers. So basically things like "Check out our Algebra testing >special--this weekend only" -- short email bursts to their customers. > >I was thinking BLAT would be the easiest...I could alternatively fire >off a single RUN command for each line I guess with this command: > >mailto:[email protected]?subject=check out our >Algebra testing special?Body=Check out our website for the coupon for >discounted testing this month only! > >This page helps with the format: >http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html > >But even if the message is just a few lines, it seems like a lot for the >MailTo line. ??? > >Suggestions? tia! > >-- >Mike Babcock, MCP >MB Software Solutions, LLC >President, Chief Software Architect >http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com >http://fabmate.com >http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
