Re: Bulk Email >>>>Any ideas?
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texte = On 8/16/01 9:18 PM, Adam O'Connor
wrote: Here is a thought:If your forced to use emailer try this logic (not tested):Create a trigger that first checks your email directory and if the number of files is below your comfort setting, then:Grab the first X number of files in directory 2 (temp) and move them to email directory...hence cueing them up for mail.This trigger can execute as often as you like without too much issue as the comfort number determines if anything is done. When you create your large groups of emails do so with the writefile tag and have them go to the temp directory. In theory by doing this, you can control the largest number of files cued up for email at a time....BUT!!!!If you are writing large numbers of files to the HD you will definitely see slowdowns. Depending on the amount of customization you wanted to do you might be better off with a simple email DB which takes the addresses and relates them to a body DB which contains the email. Then by having a trigger that simply checks the email directory again for your comfort number, and having found it below your acceptable, searches the email db and performs a sendmail loop for whatever number you choose... Make sure you either delete the email records when sent or change a flag though ;-) Either way, knowing that Webcat is not well designed for this, some of us believe firmly that there are great advantages to having the Webcat system handle email and are bound and determined to find a working scenario :-)Good luck. Alex > 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'ConnorAlex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Drawer 607 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer------------------------------------------------------------- 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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On 8/16/01 9:18 PM, Adam O'Connor wrote: Here is a thought:If your forced to use emailer try this logic (not tested):Create a trigger that first checks your email directory and if the number of files is below your comfort setting, then:Grab the first X number of files in directory 2 (temp) and move them to email directory...hence cueing them up for mail.This trigger can execute as often as you like without too much issue as the comfort number determines if anything is done. When you create your large groups of emails do so with the writefile tag and have them go to the temp directory. In theory by doing this, you can control the largest number of files cued up for email at a time....BUT!!!!If you are writing large numbers of files to the HD you will definitely see slowdowns. Depending on the amount of customization you wanted to do you might be better off with a simple email DB which takes the addresses and relates them to a body DB which contains the email. Then by having a trigger that simply checks the email directory again for your comfort number, and having found it below your acceptable, searches the email db and performs a sendmail loop for whatever number you choose... Make sure you either delete the email records when sent or change a flag though ;-) Either way, knowing that Webcat is not well designed for this, some of us believe firmly that there are great advantages to having the Webcat system handle email and are bound and determined to find a working scenario :-)Good luck. Alex > 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'ConnorAlex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Drawer 607 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer------------------------------------------------------------- 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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