Philip,
Actually it is possibe to place correctly formatted pairs of files into the
Spool dir and IMail will send them. You need both a Q (control) and D
(message and header) file, so now you need create 18,000 files. They are
both text files (you can create them with anything you want!) and if you
have any messages in the Queue that are not sent the first try, copy the Q
and D (of the same name.ext) to another location and you now have samples. I
don't have a definition of the files, but once you look at them, they are
not terribly complicated.
If you are going to send the exact same message to all 9000 addresses, a
List Server might be a better method. One email sent to the list and all
9000 get it.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Kapusta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:04 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail: How to manually create email messages on the
server
> I had asked...
>
> >1) How does a programmer manually create email messages on
> >the localhost server that will be sent via IMail's SMTP service?
> >By manually, I mean something like this...
> >
> >C:>COPY CON TESTING.TXT
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Testing 123
>
> Someone replied thusly...
>
> > If you run an SMTP client, you can send mail to any SMTP server,
> > including the one called Imail. Have you read page 221
> > of the Imail u/g?
>
>
> I now reply...
>
> Yes, I have read page 221. I don't think this is a very good
> solution, however, simply because I have 9000+ emails that I will be
> creating manually/programmatically, and launching IMAIL.EXE 9000+
> times does not seem like a very good use of system resources.
>
>
> I also had asked...
>
> >Now, how do I get TESTING.TXT to get sent via Imail SMTP?
>
> Someone also suggested...
>
> > another solution is BLAT, www.google.com.
>
> BLAT would still need to be launched 9000+ times in order to send
> 9000+ emails. I still don't think this is a graceful or efficient
> method of sending a large number of messages.
>
>
> Let me ask my question a different way...
>
> Is it possible to place files into the Imail \SPOOL folder so that
> the IMail Sendmail service will pick them up and automatically mail
> them? I have read the User's Guide regarding the spool files, but
> the User's Guide makes no mention as to the internal format of the
> spool files, or how to create them manually.
>
> I look forward to any further assistance.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Philip
>
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