How to modify this to handle HTML and text in the same message (multipart) so if the recipient doesn't have HTML then the text version is displayed? Thanks.
--- Ian Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a follow-up note to the Witango community, re > sending email blasts using > the FILE WRITE action (rather than the EMAIL > action): > > I've enclosed an example of how to accomplish this, > and what we learned by > using this approach. > > In case you didn't read the previous post, or would > like all the info in one > place, the primary reason for using the FILE WRITE > approach is speed, number > of emails that can be batched, and independence of > the Witango server from > any mailserver. > > There is no TCP/IP negotiation to slow things down; > Witango is free to > continue to process orders and make your customers > money, rather than spend > time negotiating backroom politics with some mail > server that might be > pre-occupied trying to send someone's 5Mb Christmas > card to a distribution > list of 500 (ok, so I don't particularly like large, > funny things going > through my mailserver ... forgive me my rant.) > > In fact, the mailserver doesn't even have to be > alive and kicking in order > to write the email and disengage Witango from the > process. Perhaps you have > a low bandwidth connection that is sensitive to load > at certain times of the > day. You might choose to write all your bulk emails > to the appropriate > directory while the email service itself is shut > off. Then you could > schedule turning on of the mailserver at a > particular time of day, when your > bandwidth usage is light. > > The enclosed example is capable of sending both HTML > and PLAIN TEXT email > notes, using WinNT IIS 4.0 SP6a and the mail server > that comes with that OS > and Service Pack. > > This might not give you all the answers that you're > looking for, but it > should leave you confused at a much higher level, > and about more important > things !! > > Cheers, > Ian Daniel, A.Sc.T., President > New Creation Consulting & Information Management > Inc. > # 701, 889 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC V6C > 3B2 Canada > ===================================================== > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ncol.com > http://witango.ncol.com > Ph: (604) 576-3086 Fax: (604) 576-3025 > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pdf name=Filewrite for Email Rev1.2.pdf > ATTACHMENT part 3 application/octet-stream name=automailer.taf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
