Re: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

My experience with BLAT was that a lot of sophisticated IT folks figured out that the message said it was comming from this when it was really coming from that therefore they didn't let it go through thinking SPAM. I had to use MS Outlook. I have also had great success with gMail. Thd down side

Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

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

RE: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

Word will do a mail merge to email which might be easier. John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 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

RE: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

...@leafe.com Subject: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1) 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

RE: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

Suggestions? tia! Blat is great for one-off emails and even a couple each minute, but it connects and logs in for each email sent. If you need something a little more efficient with higher throughput you might consider the wwIPStuff Client Tools from West-Wind (and West Wind is having a 10% off

Re: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

John Weller wrote: Word will do a mail merge to email which might be easier. I absolutely don't want to rely on Word being there, let alone the various versions in use across our 1000 centers. Thanks anyway! -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect

Re: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

Richard Kaye wrote: I believe you can put the body of the message in a text file and blat will read that. Ooh you're right...I forgot about thatgood idea! -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com

Re: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

Rick Schummer wrote: Suggestions? tia! Blat is great for one-off emails and even a couple each minute, but it connects and logs in for each email sent. If you need something a little more efficient with higher throughput you might consider the wwIPStuff Client Tools from West-Wind (and

Re: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

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

Re: Need to produce mass emails (VFP9SP1)

Good to know...thanks. Hmmm...I think we have wwIPStuff here at Sylvan. Are there published docs for this? Here's the example from the wwc doc: o=CREATEOBJECT(wwIPStuff) o.cMailServer=mail.yourmailserver.net o.cSenderEmail=rstr...@west-wind.com o.cSenderName=Rick Strahl *** Optional