mailing list... how to?

[weee]

Hi There.

I'm tyring to build a miling list but I'm not sure how!

I know how to get al lthe email and the names and the content of the mail but I don't know how the engine should be.

I've been told that the best way it to send 6 or 10 nd wait for 2 seconds or so and continue sending.

Can someone explin it to me please?

Thanks!

[ccrookston]

Do you have MS Word? Lookup "e-mail merge" in Help. They have already built the exact tool you are looking for.

If that doesn't work for you, then it isn't hard to build a tool from scratch with Access and some simple ASP code. You'll need an email sending tool such as J-Mail (which is free).

http://www.dimac.net/Products/w3JMail/start.htm

Good luck!

[weee]

I'm fimiliar with ASP, VB & SQL and all of that - that's not the problem.

I just want to get some advice about how to build the engine itself.

Any Ideas...?

[ccrookston]

Are you looking for generals or specifics?

Here's the general:

Start by populating a database with names and emails. Then, become familiar with J-Mail. It's very simple. Your original post said you already have the content of the email, so that's done.

Now, here are the steps to sending the email:

1) Build a record set with all the names and emails.

2) Begin loop

3) Insert the current name into the body of the email

4) Use the J-Mail code, send the body to the current email address

5) move to the next record in the set

6) loop

Voila! If you need more specifics, say the word and we can point you in the direction.

Casey Crookston