>>In a nutshell, I'm trying to figure out how to populate mailing lists over a >>network. Here's why:
Have you thought about using ASP code or VBScript and your favorite flavor of database. You could generate the list on the fly or you could send the message itself on the fly. We have had similar requirements. Our solution includes a Contact table, a Category table, a Category/Contact map table, and a secured web form. The web form has a Category selection list, Subject field, and a body field. Contacts can belong to zero or more Categories. You select a category, enter or paste the subject and body, click submit. The action of the form selects the recipients from the contact table based on the membership in a category and sends the message to each recipient. Their are several flavors of mail sending tools available to use in the action code, some of which can send on their own and some will use your mail server to actually send the email. Also, if this is in response to an emergency, you would want the fastest, easiest generation method. The method I described is a one step process. The method you describe is at least a two step process (create the list, send the email from the list owner account to the list) with a cleanup process (delete the list) after the message has been transmitted. Hope this helps. Mike To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
