For mass mailings we are using the Mailall and makelist utilies from Imal
and they have worked well so far. Maila all is for sending a text message
via command line. We have the sender just create the message and save it as
text format (notepad is best). Then we simple follow the Imail mail to send
it as a mailall messege from the command line for the appropriate host.
Makelist extracts all of the email addresses on a server and creates a text
file you can point an alias at to send regular email messages to (html or
standard email formating.)
I would say that if you frequently need to send global messages, or have
different departments etc. doing it. Have your IT staff do a daily makelist
and have it saved as a standard file name. Then just let the rest of the
company send any mass mailings to the alias pointed at that list. if it's
only an occasional thing Mailall works fine, only takes about two minutes to
set-up and then run time depends on hardware, bandwidth and total user
count.
Kevin C.
Customer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Carolina's Fastest Internet Service Provider
www.NetQuick.net
(910) 486-7845 Ext. 22
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Shanbrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Large Database driven list
> Actually the best way I can think of would be to crearte a list using
> file.lst as the file for its users. Then use a SQL query to export the
> desired users addresses to the file.lst. Then send the message to this
list
> via the command lime mailer imail1.exe.
>
> Eric S
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Rosencrantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 7:37 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Large Database driven list
>
>
> > We have a (25,000 +) database of members in SQL 7.0. We want to move
> Imail
> > to a external database configuration solely to be able to access this
> member
> > database, so that we can do mass mailings etc. Currently we use CF to
do
> > this, but its slow, and we want to use the mail server directly.
> >
> > Has anyone done this, either on this scale or otherwise? If so, how did
> you
> > go about it and what list settings did you use?
> >
> > TIA
> >
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> >
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