Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-22 Thread Ronald Zellner
While my anecdote referred to an early unsolicited survey, my applications are directed at participants in specific projects and use approved e-mail lists; I don't send out to any general lists gleaned from the Internet, etc. While my requests do not involve commercial or marketing activities,

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
I will say that sending multiple emails, depending on the smtp server, may be interpreted as spam. We had a tenant in our building trying to send email via Outlook and Exchange, using a group, not realizing that Exchange sent multiple emails. Early on the SMTP server for the ISP blocked all ema

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ronald Zellner wrote: > I guess the nature of the recipient list and the intent of the > mailings is at the heart of the issue, the process is pretty much > the same no matter what. It is a question of whether the mailings > are intrusive or not, and not everyone agrees on that. Explicit opt-in

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-21 Thread stephen barncard
If you do end up automating this, I'd suggest you put an unsubscribe link in the bottom of each email message and make sure it goes somewhere. This will make your messages "less spammy" in the eyes of bots and in line with standards and practices. sqb On 21 May 2011 10:54, Ronald Zellner wrote:

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-21 Thread Ronald Zellner
My intent in asking the question was to focus on technical advice but I understand how the spamming issue came in so quickly. I guess the nature of the recipient list and the intent of the mailings is at the heart of the issue, the process is pretty much the same no matter what. It is a questio

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Friday, May 20, 2011, 1:05:49 PM, you wrote: > http://www.webassist.com/php-scripts-and-solutions/powermessenger/ Dang... I read that as we bassist.com ...got all excited there... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mail

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-20 Thread Marty Knapp
I use a program called MaxBulk Mailer from: http://www.maxprog.com They have Mac and Windows versions and in several languages. It's $50. You can throttle it back so it only sends so many emails back to back. Please use it to send only to those who've opted into your mailing list! Marty Knap

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-20 Thread Andre Garzia
Scott, The fine folks at "The Escapers" also make a mass mailer that is very mac like, it has a fenomenal name, it is called whoosh ( http://theescapers.com/whoosh/index.html ). Their software is usually very good, I have a license for Flux, their HTML editor and it is great, I would expect that W

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Or better yet why not avoid the greased pole to techno-hell and swear off spamming altogether? I swear, if someone ever got God's email address, He would never be able to use it again. Bob On May 20, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > While it would be nice to have an all-LC email soluti

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-20 Thread Scott Rossi
While it would be nice to have an all-LC email solution, this looks like it could be a good option for bulk email: http://www.webassist.com/php-scripts-and-solutions/powermessenger/ Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Andre Garzia wrote: > Hey someone ask

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/20/2011 10:48 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Hey someone asked for Spamming??? Brazilians are here to solve your problem!!! Why do I have a funny feeling Spamming ought to go the way of cheese? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.c

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-20 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey someone asked for Spamming??? Brazilians are here to solve your problem!!! Sending email is tricky. If your dataset is small, a loop with Sarahs libraries will be enough. If your dataset is larger then, I think the best option these days is to your Amazon Simplemail tools. Amazon besides S3, E

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
U... That IS spamming! Ask Andre! ;-) Bob On May 19, 2011, at 7:24 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > For automatic email sending, you're better off using Sarah's library with a > repeat loop. You might have some issues with that if your script sends too > many emails at once. Some ISPs think th

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/19/11 8:18 PM, Ronald Zellner wrote: Have you looked at the revMail command? Yes, that's what I was planning on using. I was just looking for cautions or insights that someone might have gleaned through experience. I've had good experience with revMail, no particular problems. It's been

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-19 Thread Ronald Zellner
On May 19, 2011, at 3:27 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message: 19 > Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 14:12:09 -0500 > From: "J. Landman Gay" > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Generating e-mail > Message-ID: <4dd56b89.9080...@hyperactivesw.

Re: Generating e-mail

2011-05-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/19/11 3:37 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: On May 19, 2011, at 12:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/19/11 11:18 AM, Ronald Zellner wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have a good example of using LiveCode to generate e-mail? I have a DB of addresses and related information and want to generate a custom e

Re: Generating e-mail

2011-05-19 Thread David Glass
I wasn't able to download her stack from the Sons of Thunder website a couple of days ago. It might have been removed. There's another one at troz.net. http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks On 05/19/2011 2:34 PM, Pete wrote: I seem to remember someone has an SMTP stack f

Re: Generating e-mail

2011-05-19 Thread Pete
I seem to remember someone has an SMTP stack for Livecode... Shao Shen maybe (probably totally messed up the spelling, sorry). Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > > On May 19, 2011, at 12:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > >

Re: Generating e-mail

2011-05-19 Thread Kee Nethery
On May 19, 2011, at 12:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/19/11 11:18 AM, Ronald Zellner wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Does anyone have a good example of using LiveCode to generate >> e-mail? I have a DB of addresses and related information and want to >> generate a custom e-mail message for each. I

Re: Generating e-mail

2011-05-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/19/11 11:18 AM, Ronald Zellner wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have a good example of using LiveCode to generate e-mail? I have a DB of addresses and related information and want to generate a custom e-mail message for each. I think I can manage it but advice and tips from others' experiences wo

Generating e-mail

2011-05-19 Thread Ronald Zellner
Hi All, Does anyone have a good example of using LiveCode to generate e-mail? I have a DB of addresses and related information and want to generate a custom e-mail message for each. I think I can manage it but advice and tips from others' experiences would be great to avoid any problems. Thanks