Re: Using LAUNCH to SEND an Email

[david blocker]

Thanks RIchard!   David   ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Kahl To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:29 PM Subject: Re: Using LAUNCH to SEND an Email David, I use blat and pegasus both with very good results. I found a site www.emailman.com that has several email programs and utilities that may be helpful. One other note,  I have verizon dsl, recently I was having trouble sending a message to a large group. Verizon limits groups to 100 and a total of 500 messages per hour. Richard Kahl >From: "david blocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Using LAUNCH to SEND an Email >Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 06:19:26 -0500 > >Larry >Ah, the first clear description of the problem I've seen. Thank you so much! >I asked the question not for a specific application but for the training >books I'm working on. The only thing I don't understand in your posting are >two phrases: > ><> > will even succeed depends on whether the user has > > installed and correctly configured an email client?>> > >I hear the words, but they have no meaning to me. > > > the optional tags in mailto:. Also, the mailto: tag>> > >THis implies that "mailto" is a command out of somewhere, with "tags" that >can be found documented somewhere! Where!!!??? > >David > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lawrence Lustig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:38 AM >Subject: Re: Using LAUNCH to SEND an Email > > > > > To my surprise, I've received no answers from anyone > > > on how to get R:Base to > > > SEND an email, not just set one up, in Outlook > > > Express. > > > > David: > > > > The issue is not so much using LAUNCH to send an > > email, but what program you would launch to do the > > sending. The mailto: tag, which is what I think you > > are thinking of in connection with Outlook is not the > > appropriate tool for automated emailing. For one > > thing, an email client is a pretty "heavy" application > > to use for such a light task. Secondly, whether it > > will even succeed depends on whether the user has > > installed and correctly configured an email client, > > and on the degree to which the email client supports > > the optional tags in mailto:. Also, the mailto: tag > > does not support auto-sent email. I think this is > > probably a good decision -- otherwise you might > > innocently click on a link at some web site and wind > > up sending out thousands of emails from your desktop > > under your account. > > > > There are a couple of ways to handle sending emails. > > > > One is to use some software that sits on a server > > somewhere and constantly polls a subdirectory for new > > files. Each new file is sent as an email (emails are > > just straight ASCII files with some special lines in > > the header to specify from, to, subject, etc). This > > solution doesn't require LAUNCH at all, since the mail > > router is always running on some machine. However, it > > does require the set up and maintenance of that > > software. > > > > The other way is to use a command line mailer that you > > fire off, giving it the name of a file or files > > whenever you have mail to send. This would be > > executed with the LAUNCH command and could probably be > > made "invisible" to the user. > > > > The Postie program that has been mentioned here seems > > to be inexpensive and feature rich. If it does not > > meet your needs and you can't find something that > > does, I'm always available to write utility programs > > like that. I have previously written a command line > > fax program for a client whose old DOS TSR fax program > > did not survive an operating system upgrade. > > > > Best, > > -- > > Larry Lustig > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > > http://personals.yahoo.com > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com