Rob,
This looks good (http://www.Gammadyne.com), at least at first glance. Thank
you for pointing me to a useful resource and delineating the way to do it
with MS Access :)
Cheers,
Guy
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Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 10:42 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?
> Pretty easy to do with Access (two tables, one for names/addresses, the
> other for newsletter types). Three tables if you want to get fancy.
>
> Table 1
> Unique ID | Personalization Info | email address
>
> Table 2
> Unique ID from Table 1 | Newsletter Number from optional table 3
>
> Table 3
> Unique Newsletter Number | Newsletter Name
>
> Use something like Gammadyne Mailer (http://www.Gammadyne.com) $79
> to handle the outbound. Their site is down as I send this, but it is an
> extremely flexible tool for composing, formating, and sending newsletters
> (html and text). Even some cool stuff for handling bounces.
>
> I believe you can download it as shareware or trialware from cnet
>
> Rob
>
> ======================
> Robert N. Grosshandler
>
>
> iGive.com, inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Isabel
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?
>
>
> Kevin,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I agree that having separate interest lists is the
> best way to handle it, but management at my place wanted to have it the
> other way around: [practically] each recipient getting an e-mail with a
> different content. I wish it could be as simple as a recipient being
> subscribed to N lists, as I am with, say, Microsoft.
>
> Still looking for a solution but I guess I will try Terry Fritts' hints. I
> surmise that it will be extremely processor intensive, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guy
> --
> Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "NetQuick Mail Administration" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?
>
>
> > The simplest implementation of anything like this is to have a
> separate
> > list for each item of interest. A local company of some 1,200 employees
> > does this. They have a separate news letters for each department and
for
> > the various levels in the company. I don't know what mail program they
> are
> > using but the sign-up is all from a single page with check boxes for
each
> > desired item. Using one of the web based sign-ups from either Ipswitch
or
> > one of the third party offerings you should be able to replicate this.
> >
> > Kevin Childers
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "IMail Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 5:39 PM
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?
> >
> >
> > > Greetings, IMail Forum members,
> > >
> > > I have been tasked with an "interesting challenge". I work for a large
> > > Canadian university and our Development and Alumni Relations
department
> > > would like to send personalized newsletters once a month to about
50,000
> > > constituents, each message averaging about 4 KB, thus about 200 MB to
> > > deliver in total.
> > >
> > > For the sake of simplicity, assume that there are only 3 topics of
> > interest:
> > > A (Science), B (Sports) and C (Arts). In reality, it is more like 25
> > > topics. Each recipient has notified the department of the topics in
> which
> > > they are interested. For instance: A+B, A+C, B only, etc.
> > >
> > > A colleague of mine is writing a program that will output a list that
> will
> > > have one row per recipient showing the e-mail address and their
topic(s)
> > of
> > > choice. The program could also output a text file containing the
> "collage"
> > > of appropriate topical sections for each recipient, thus making
> available
> > > the entire body of the text to be sent to him/her.
> > >
> > > Three questions (for now!):
> > >
> > > 1. Is there a clever way in IMail Server 6.05a of using the list
server
> > > function, program aliases or perhaps IMAIL1.EXE in some combination to
> > > achieve this?
> > >
> > > 2. Would writing another program that calls IMAIL1.EXE (or perhaps
> > BLAT.EXE;
> > > by the way, which one is more efficient?) that goes through the
> list/table
> > > created by the aforementioned program to e-mail each recipient with
the
> > > proper text body be a viable solution?
> > >
> > > 3. In either case, what hardware would you recommend for such a list
> > server?
> > > Which OS (Windows NT 4.0, W2K Server, W2K Advanced Server)?
> > >
> > > I know that LISTSERV in combination with LSMTP, both available from
> L-Soft
> > > International (http://www.lsoft.com/, specifically
> > > http://www.lsoft.com/products/default.asp?item=listserv_database),
could
> > do
> > > of on-the-fly mail merge and send to a single list of 50,000
recipients.
> > > Unfortunately, this is not an option for us at the present time. We do
> > have
> > > LISTSERV but not LSMTP.
> > >
> > > Any advice and comments gratefully received :)
> > >
> > > Guy
> > >
> > > --
> > > Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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