On 11/feb/2010, at 19.33, Chuck Hill wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Tusker wrote: > >> This looks great! What about handling bounces? I work in a really small >> team so would creating/setting up/maintaining this type of system might be >> too much? Like it was mentioned before, you can just let MailChimp handle >> all this. The only problem with that is the fact that we have to store our >> customer data on their servers. >> >> M >> >> On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Amedeo Mantica wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Some time ago I have made some work for sending "bulk" emails... Let me >>> explain how it works, because I think that may be a good start >>> >>> 1) Mailing List management >>> >>> Two Entities MailRecipient (emails) and and MailingList (groups) in a >>> many-to-many relationship >>> I made an UI for managing Lists and email, insert / remove bulk emails >>> automatically handling spaces, commas, carriage returns, duplicate >>> addresses, etc... >>> >>> 2) Mail Templates >>> >>> In a very similar manner as Appe Mail.app templates, I have made a folder >>> with some mail templates >>> >>> 3) Email Sending >>> >>> The user can Send an email using a web form that contains an html editor or >>> can send an article published in the website (in my case), I also handle >>> attchments sending them as links. >>> I have a Class called MailTask that take care of sending email in a >>> separate Thread while the user can continue to use the webapp/website, and >>> can evantually close session without stopping sending. >>> >>> 4) Email Read checking >>> >>> The MailTask thread personalize each email with a special blank image ( 1px >>> ) that call a Direct Action that set a timestamp to the MailRecipient raw >>> so you know when that email address had last access. > > Though if people have automatic image loading turned off, that won't work. > > Chuck
You are right, I hope to add serious bounce handling in near future Amedeo > > >>> >>> Please see screenshots at: >>> http://downloads.insigno.net/Amedeo/MailingList.pdf >>> >>> Please le me know what you think about this and if you have some ideas to >>> improve this work. Actually is still not an indipendent framework, but i'm >>> working to make it universal and share it with wo community. >>> >>> Regards >>> Amedeo >>> >>> On 10/feb/2010, at 19.44, Tusker wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Is there any webobjects api which will allow sending out mass amounts of >>>> custom emails (~200K / week) and also handles the bounces? I know there >>>> are some stand-alone applications which do just that, but I need this >>>> integrated tightly with WO and to work with my EOF data. Should I use >>>> Project Wonder ERJavaMail and will it be able to handle the number of >>>> emails we plan on sending out? Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly >>>> appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> M >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>>> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >>>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/amedeomailing%40insigno.it >>>> >>>> This email sent to [email protected] >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/chill%40global-village.net >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > > -- > Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development > > Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall > knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. > http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
