> -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Kulawiec [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 22 February 2012 11:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Customer Notification System. > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:58:19PM -0500, James Wininger wrote: > > We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers. > > Ideally the system would send an attached PDF. It would be great if > > this system were SQL based etc. > > (a) Use ASCII. Using PDF for this is insane. > > (b) You're dealing with only 400 customers, yet you want the overhead > and complexity of a SQL-capable database? Do you also engage a fleet > of bulldozers when you want to plant a flower in the back yard? > > > I have thought of possibly using a > > mailing list type approach, but that gets us back to (almost) where > we > > are today. > > Precisely what is wrong with a "mailing list type approach", using > Mailman (which is the best available and what runs this list)? It > handles COI (mandatory for responsible and ethical operation of all > mailing lists), it runs on all varieties of 'nix, it plays nice with > MTAs, it deals with most bounces in a sane fashion, etc.
Yeah please don't use PDF. There is nothing more annoying than getting an email about something important that had a PDF attachment to tell you about the important things. Lowest common denominator! I used to use mailman for this, but we had a CRM system as well which was database driven. So I write a script to grab the right email addresses from the database every night and populate mailman. -- Leigh ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
