Witango-Talk: Version 5.5 Mail action

2011-08-31 Thread Rich
Is there any realistic limits (as defined by the number of emails to be sent) for using the mail action for a email blast? Rich To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to lists...@witango.com with unsubscribe witango-talk in the body.

RE: Witango-Talk: Version 5.5 Mail action

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Shubert
Rich, There is no problem using the Mail action to send out an email blast. You will have to watch the timeout on the query. Depending on your hardware and the receiving email server, you may only be able to send a few hundred emails before you hit the query timeout. You can get around this

RE: Witango-Talk: Version 5.5 Mail action

2011-08-31 Thread Rich
thanks -Original Message- From: Robert Shubert [mailto:rshub...@tronics.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:20 PM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Version 5.5 Mail action Rich, There is no problem using the Mail action to send out an email blast. You will have

Re: Witango-Talk: Version 5.5 Mail action

2011-08-31 Thread Wayne Irvine
I run a subscription based newsletter service on one of my sites. There are about 6000 subscribers. Originally I tried just increasing the query timeout. I found my mail server (SIMS at the time) couldn't keep up with the influx of mail. I then changed it to a system that created a mail file

Re: Witango-Talk: MacOS 10.7 ODBC

2011-08-31 Thread Richard Donagrandi
My Mac OS Tiger Server just blew up and had to upgrade to a new Mac OS Lion Server… On 10.4, I was using ActualTechnologies ODBC drivers, OpenBase, and WiTango 5.5… That was working somewhat OK… minor bugs here and there… not to mention the Witango setup left a lot to be desired… On Mac OS