OK, new twist. The email must contain a PDF attachment. Is it possible to do this via the SMTP queue? I've been reading up on creating SMTP emails, and I think I've got most of it figured out except for this.
If not, I'm back to needing a safe number for batching Tango2000 emails. Thanks much! > -----Original Message----- > From: Wilcox, Jamileh (HSC) > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Bulk Email > > > So Witango5 doesn't have the problem with sending lots o' > email? Another note to send upstream in my quest for an upgrade... :) > > These will be going individually to the recipients, but I was > going to BCC the originator. That won't cause problems, will it? > > (This is a side-project - one of our docs needs to email > invites to a yearly conference. He used to do a Word > mail-merge into Outlook, but changes on the Exchange server > since his last set prevent that from working any more. Since > the boss-man knew I'd done small bulk-mails to our web users, > he asked if I could do this mailing. Of course, it's way > much more complicated than our original understanding of what > was needed, but what-the-hey. At least I'm making brownie > points for my dept and for Tango! :D ) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Stein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:15 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Bulk Email > > > > > > I use Witango 5 but no special mail function. I have not had > > a problem with even 4,000 emails. But very important is to > > not use BCC to send the emails out but send one per person. > > If you use BCC you will very soon find you are blocked by > > SPAM filters from all over and won't even be able to send > > one. And worse that that if you use a large ISP like say XO > > then one of their mail servers will get blacked and it will > > affect everyone on that server. > > > > Dan > > > > on 8/25/03 18:20, Wilcox, Jamileh (HSC) at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > OK, I'm going to be doing some bulk emailing via Tango > > (Tango 2000 on > > > W2K IIS5). I'll be using a FOR loop to work through a Search > > > resultset, with a Mail action in the loop to send emails > with data > > > from the database search. > > > > > > I know that there's a problem with losing emails if too > > many are sent. > > > Can anyone give me a "safe" number, so that I can run these in > > > batches? > > > > > > Alternatively, I've tried setting up Tango to write text > files into > > > the SMTP queue (as discussed on the list). I'd rather do > that than > > > have to run multiple batches, but I'm having problems. > > These are Word > > > documents saved as HTML (yuck!) - they work fine if I > cut&paste the > > > HTML into the Mail action, but if I cut&paste it into a > > text file and > > > mail that, everything is double-spaced. Any suggestions for that? > > > > > > [OT] > > > Can anyone tell me how to identify an ActiveX control in a > > Word HTML > > > document? I get an ActiveX warning message on my test > > emails, but I > > > can't figure out what's causing it. [/OT] > > > > > > > > > Many thanks, as always! > > > jamileh > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > __ > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf > > > > > > > -- > > Dan Stein > > Digital Software Solutions > > 799 Evergreen Circle > > Telford PA 18969 > > Land: 215-799-0192 > > Mobile: 610-256-2843 > > Fax 413-410-9682 > > FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.dss-db.com > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > __________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf > > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
