On 11/feb/2010, at 19.33, Chuck Hill wrote:

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> On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Tusker wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Amedeo Mantica wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> 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

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>>> 
>>> 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
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