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brujo
Average Member
USA
602 Posts |
 Posted - 02 October 2002 : 18:38:56
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I have the Newsletter MOD installed on my forum.
I have not used it as yet - for a couple of reasons.....
1) my mailing list for my clients etc is 3260 long at present and growing daily..
2) I always send out html emails
3) I send out different email versions to different mail groups depending on where they wish to relocate to....
Can the Newsletter Mod handle these kind of quantities..... and support different mail groups ?
How do the Snitz admin send out newsletters or informative posts etc - since I would imagine their subscription list would be considerably more....
thanks for any help on this....
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burthold
Junior Member
USA
426 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2002 : 18:59:53
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There are two mods email all users and the Newsletter with HTML support. I don't know if ether would support 3k+ users in one mass emailing. I re-wrote the newsletter mod for 3.4.x but haven't done anything about mass groups of users. I fixed any errors I found and updated it for 3.4 I will put it up in the next day or so. I have some ideas on how to handle mass users though. The newsletter mod I have doesn't support any groups at all but I don't think it would be too terribly hard to add groups support to it. I use the newsletter mod to send out emails to my users but I only have 70 or so lol. Are you running 3.4 or 3.3? I would be willing to help work out these issues.
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brujo
Average Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2002 : 19:05:38
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Thanks Wes
Sorry - using v3.4.03
Also - just been checking out Dave Greenings posts on such matters......
he mentions a site here
Web Wizard site: http://www.webwizguide.info/asp/sample_scripts/mailing_list_script.asp
obviously this is something "apart" from forum - but do you think I am best going down this road ?
The thing is my company deals with relocation / recruitment to all the Caribbean locations - so in effect - I might have up to 24 or so seperate mail groups......
I am fairly new to mail and groups -and have only just started out on this.....
I have been using Outlook - but I really need something in ASP. Outlook has some problems for me.
Thanks for your thoughts....
brujo
v3.4.03
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Edited by - brujo on 02 October 2002 19:06:03 |
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burthold
Junior Member
USA
426 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2002 : 19:27:33
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| Well, I think I have found a way to handle large groups but I don't have a group list big enough to test it on. Honestly, I have never dealt with mass emailings I have a friend that is a lead developer for a company that does bulk emailings but they have in house written scripts to handle the huge load and multiple mail servers all tied to an oracle DB. The webwiz thing maybe the way to go. |
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@tomic
Senior Member
USA
1790 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2002 : 19:30:00
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I tried several newsletter MODs and all would timeout after a few hundred were sent ande I would have no idea at what point the timeout occurred leaving me in a bind. Do you resend to all and annoy a bunch of people and then it will, of course, time out again so you have to decide if you want to really piss people off bt sending it out yet again....rinse, repeat
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SportsBettingAcumen.com |
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brujo
Average Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2002 : 19:49:52
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I will give the above app a go and test it out.....
I 'll let you both know how I get on !!!
Thanks for your input...
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alex042
Average Member
USA
631 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2002 : 20:14:39
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quote:
I tried several newsletter MODs and all would timeout after a few hundred were sent
Some email servers may not even allow that many in a batch. Maybe the MOD can be modified to send out newsletters in predetermined batch amounts.
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burthold
Junior Member
USA
426 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2002 : 22:04:44
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I was going to use an array and pass the number the array count was on to the page every 100 records or less it would be self batching at that point sending a few mails at a time 50 or so.
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Six
Starting Member
10 Posts |
Posted - 03 October 2002 : 20:10:02
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Burthold
Keep us posted if you get this working. |
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kirkeby
New Member
USA
77 Posts |
Posted - 04 December 2002 : 14:24:50
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| Any thoughts on upgrading the Newsletter mod to allow you to save a draft? Would be a nice feature. |
My info: Snitz 3.4.03, Access db, Mods Installed: Avatar Mod for 3.4, Newsletter Mod, Poll Mod v.2.0.1, Email All Users Mod v3.4, Spell Checker Mod, Mike's File Attach Mod, Next/Prev Topic Title Hover Mod v3.4, Message Icons Mod v3.4 |
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Intrepidone
Average Member
Canada
515 Posts |
Posted - 08 December 2002 : 18:31:51
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If anyone is using the NewsLetter MOD with HTML and is running ASPMail, here is the code needed. Add this to inc_mail_html.asp below
select case lcase(strMailMode) and above case "aspemail"
case "aspmail"
Set objNewMail = Server.CreateObject("SMTPsvg.Mailer")
objNewMail.FromName = strFromName
objNewMail.FromAddress = strSender
'objNewMail.AddReplyTo = strSender
objNewMail.RemoteHost = strMailServer
objNewMail.AddRecipient strRecipientsName, strRecipients
objNewMail.Subject = strSubject
objNewMail.ContentType = "text/html"
objNewMail.BodyText = "<HTML><BODY> " & strMessage & " </BODY></HTML>"
on error resume next '## Ignore Errors
SendOk = objNewMail.SendMail
If not(SendOk) <> 0 Then
Err_Msg = Err_Msg & "<li>Your request was not sent due to the following error: " & objNewMail.Response & "</li>"
End if
That should do the trick |
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Lucky
Junior Member
USA
127 Posts |
Posted - 25 December 2002 : 16:08:43
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| Has anyone figured out a way to send mailings to 2000+ members? |
~Lucky |
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