On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, chas wrote: > Goal: an end-user fills in a form on a webpage and clicks > the 'submit' button. As a result, thousands of > customized e-mail messages are sent. > > Problems: > (i) The msgs are customized so Mailman is not appropriate. > also, there is substantial workflow so Zope is preferred. > (ii) The end user only uses a web browser - s/he will not be > expected to log in and use ZClient, so the previous solution > suggested below is not viable. > (iii) The confirmation webpage must return immediately... > ie. we do not want to wait for all the emails to be > sent before the page is returned to the user. > This has to be processed in the background (perhaps > for the next hour or so, even if the user logs off). > > Possible scenario : user logs on, fills in form, hits 'submit', > confirmation webpage is returned to the user saying it's ok, > emails start to get sent out, user logs off, emails > continue to get sent out, user logs back on 2 hrs later > and its still processing. > > > Anyone any ideas on this one ? Thanks a lot, You might want to take a look at my bulk mailing how-to http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/BulkMailHack/ Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )