Re: Bulk Email >>>>Any ideas?
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texte = Andrew, Thanx for your idea. That is one approach that I was thinking, a multi-step process. I might have to do it this way, but, if I can make it more user-friendly by having it be a single execution, then I would like to go that route. This seems to be the challenging element, having the process move on by itself.I have though of about possibly using a [loop] tag that is set to loop until the amount of files in the emailfolder have reached an amount authorized to send another batch, and I have also thought about using the [waitforfile] function, which would be set to wait for a non-existent file for around 20 minutes or so, then fire the next tag which would be a duplicate function till all mailings have been written.All seem to be possible directions, but some perhaps are not feasible. Such as, waitforfile might get interrupted, and I am not sure if the loop could be in the manner mentioned.-Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Simpson
To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:18 PM Subject: Re: Bulk Email >>>>Any ideas? > put it with a founditems loop and use startat[counter] ...endat[counter] > > click a button to send next 500... > > on 17/8/01 1:18 PM, Adam O'Connor at webDNAprogrammer@hotmail.com wrote: > > > I am trying to control the amount of files that are written into the email > > folder at one time. In addition, once the number has been reached continue > > onto the next amount of files/emails to be written. > > > > Reason for doing this is, my client has around 5000 subscribers to his > > mailing list and would like to have webcatalog perform the mailing in > > segments, reducing the chance of server trouble. If possible the process > > needs to be 'semi-automated', that is, either executed by a link, or > > secondly, a trigger. > > > > I have thought of a number of possible scenarios to do this, but wanted some > > input before diving in. > > > > -Adam O'Connor > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > > the mailing list . > > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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Andrew, Thanx for your idea. That is one approach that I was thinking, a multi-step process. I might have to do it this way, but, if I can make it more user-friendly by having it be a single execution, then I would like to go that route. This seems to be the challenging element, having the process move on by itself.I have though of about possibly using a [loop] tag that is set to loop until the amount of files in the emailfolder have reached an amount authorized to send another batch, and I have also thought about using the [waitforfile] function, which would be set to wait for a non-existent file for around 20 minutes or so, then fire the next tag which would be a duplicate function till all mailings have been written.All seem to be possible directions, but some perhaps are not feasible. Such as, waitforfile might get interrupted, and I am not sure if the loop could be in the manner mentioned.-Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Simpson To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:18 PM Subject: Re: Bulk Email >>>>Any ideas? > put it with a founditems loop and use startat[counter] ...endat[counter] > > click a button to send next 500... > > on 17/8/01 1:18 PM, Adam O'Connor at webDNAprogrammer@hotmail.com wrote: > > > I am trying to control the amount of files that are written into the email > > folder at one time. In addition, once the number has been reached continue > > onto the next amount of files/emails to be written. > > > > Reason for doing this is, my client has around 5000 subscribers to his > > mailing list and would like to have webcatalog perform the mailing in > > segments, reducing the chance of server trouble. If possible the process > > needs to be 'semi-automated', that is, either executed by a link, or > > secondly, a trigger. > > > > I have thought of a number of possible scenarios to do this, but wanted some > > input before diving in. > > > > -Adam O'Connor > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > > the mailing list . > > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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