Mondo amounts of Mail [long]
1999
It keeps the original formatting.
interpreted = N
texte = I'm trying to send a bulk email of about 6000 addresses not spam : )And I want to personalize each one, with a Dear first name, at the beginning and a hotlink to a removal page at the end.So I sat down and coded all of this in Webcatalog 2.1.3 and fired her up using the [sendmail] tag. on thanksgiving eve. What I neglected to remember was that this writes a text file to the mail folder, which SIMS then deletes. So anyway, I fired this baby up, and shortly realised I'd done something really really bad because there were over 10,000 files in the mail folder. I TB2'd in, and tried to delete them. as I was in the process of moving all these to the trash, the powerkey tripped the power.Blammo, no hard drive in the web server no mo! I mean it's directory structure is GONE!!OK so after fixing that mess, (take hard drive out of iMac, resore old backup DOH! to another machine, spend 5 days trying to recover some data off drive, give up all hope, and will to live, put drive in NT machine and format with MacDrive, put back into iMac, you can imagine the hours of playtime we had)But I will beat this email, or I WILL DIE TRYING!!! Heck I might even crack open that big thick sendmail book (blech!) I decided to get a little wiser, and use the FABULOUS netevents to just connect to my (extra) server and send the mail directly, no file writing involved. so I made Webcatalog write the script to a plain text file, and when I tried to bring it into script editor, well, it didn't like my little 5 mb applescript.so then I got a little smarter, and decided to use the also equally fabulous send mail osax, and I cleaned up the script to set the body as one variable and only repeat the to addresses and the removal... BUT, this script is still 900 some odd k, and script editor won't open/execute/save it because it 'exceeds the script's maximum possible length'so with that long winded explanation, my questions are: what is the max size of a applescript? is this a limitation in script editor or applescript itself? Can BBEdit save as a applescript applet? How?as it is now, the script is just a few variables; from, server, subject and a 6 paragraph body. and then 6000 of this:set to_field to email@domain.com sendmail using SMTP_field to to_field from From_field with subject Subject_field with body Dear First Name, & CRLF & main_body & footer_1 & to_field & footer_2 I think I can make a very short script, by repeating the actual sendmail part above from a seperate file, but I dunno how, can some script guru help with me with that? TIA sorry for the long post -Aaron------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to
[sendmail] tag. on thanksgiving eve. What I neglected to remember was that this writes a text file to the mail folder, which SIMS then deletes. So anyway, I fired this baby up, and shortly realised I'd done something really really bad because there were over 10,000 files in the mail folder. I TB2'd in, and tried to delete them. as I was in the process of moving all these to the trash, the powerkey tripped the power.Blammo, no hard drive in the web server no mo! I mean it's directory structure is GONE!!OK so after fixing that mess, (take hard drive out of iMac, resore old backup DOH! to another machine, spend 5 days trying to recover some data off drive, give up all hope, and will to live, put drive in NT machine and format with MacDrive, put back into iMac, you can imagine the hours of playtime we had)But I will beat this email, or I WILL DIE TRYING!!! Heck I might even crack open that big thick sendmail book (blech!) I decided to get a little wiser, and use the FABULOUS netevents to just connect to my (extra) server and send the mail directly, no file writing involved. so I made Webcatalog write the script to a plain text file, and when I tried to bring it into script editor, well, it didn't like my little 5 mb applescript.so then I got a little smarter, and decided to use the also equally fabulous send mail osax, and I cleaned up the script to set the body as one variable and only repeat the to addresses and the removal... BUT, this script is still 900 some odd k, and script editor won't open/execute/save it because it 'exceeds the script's maximum possible length'so with that long winded explanation, my questions are: what is the max size of a applescript? is this a limitation in script editor or applescript itself? Can BBEdit save as a applescript applet? How?as it is now, the script is just a few variables; from, server, subject and a 6 paragraph body. and then 6000 of this:set to_field to email@domain.com sendmail using SMTP_field to to_field from From_field with subject Subject_field with body Dear First Name, & CRLF & main_body & footer_1 & to_field & footer_2 I think I can make a very short script, by repeating the actual sendmail part above from a seperate file, but I dunno how, can some script guru help with me with that? TIA sorry for the long post -Aaron------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to
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