Re: Bulk Email >>>>Any ideas?
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texte = Alain, That sounds like a good idea, I will try it out shortly. I had thought that writing to the triggers db might be a possible solution, but was not sure. I will let you know what happens.-Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: Alain Russell
To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:37 PM Subject: Re: Bulk Email >>>>Any ideas? > Why not do it the way I suggested and instead of calling the include file > which would run on the spot, use the include at the end to set a trigger > that would run in 20 minuted time - you could write this to the triggers.db > and then when it starts itself call another include to delete the trigger ?? > > This in theory would allow you to put that time delay in between each run of > emails - and it would be more reliable. > > Alain > > > 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/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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Alain, That sounds like a good idea, I will try it out shortly. I had thought that writing to the triggers db might be a possible solution, but was not sure. I will let you know what happens.-Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: Alain Russell To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:37 PM Subject: Re: Bulk Email >>>>Any ideas? > Why not do it the way I suggested and instead of calling the include file > which would run on the spot, use the include at the end to set a trigger > that would run in 20 minuted time - you could write this to the triggers.db > and then when it starts itself call another include to delete the trigger ?? > > This in theory would allow you to put that time delay in between each run of > emails - and it would be more reliable. > > Alain > > > 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/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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