On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:02 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC<[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen Russell wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:25 AM, MB Software Solutions, >> LLC<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Built this email extraction program (VFP9SP1) to grab email addresses >>> out of our client's database. Output is Excel, CSV, and/or DBF. They >>> want to use that list of email addresses and mass-email messages (like >>> marketing messages) to that list. Clients may have Outlook, but may not. >>> >>> My first thought is BLAT, but as pointed out here earlier, BLAT may >>> choke under heavy load. wwIPStuff I guess is best, as soon as Rick adds >>> support for gmail. >>> >>> Rather than actually execute the emails, I'd rather just create them and >>> set them in their Outbox of a local mail client for them to mail after >>> confirming themselves. Think of it as them pulling the trigger instead >>> of my program. >> ------------------------------------ >> >> >> First Q is why use gmail if you are doing this for your company as >> advertising? > > ??? Who said my company was doing this? It's the franchisees in the > field, not us at corporate. We're not the sender...the franchisee is. -------------------------------------------------
Hahahaha how would I have guessed that? >> >> wwIPStuff should do what you want with the in house mail system. >> >> You set up a mailbox for this outbound stuff and wwIPStuff will >> validate against it. > > > Aah, and there's where you misunderstood---this is NOT in-house. ---------------------------------- It may not be Sylvan corp but it is a local reseller of the tutoring program right? Why would you be doing this work if it were for a Franchise and not have it blessed by corporate? If they send out SPAM and it sets in motion a black listing of the corp, who will get a black eye? I would also use BLAT for your out porting of message BTY. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
