Roelof,
Thank you very much the advice and tips. I have it almost 100% setup but I cannot get the subscribers email to move from one address book to another. Batch files, templates are all setup and working. I created the outgoing filter. I have "Add Addresses to address book" checked in options. and for Items: I have tried every option, but not one of them will add the recipients actual email address to the next sequential AB. (which for testing purposes I call Lesson 2) It always adds the name of the AB group list and the email that is associated with it but not the actual recipients email. Is this something that cannot be done? That a group's AB can't be individually worked with if a group bcc is selected in template? Thanks again for the great advice. Tom RO> Hallo tom, RO> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:13:18 -0500GMT (30-10-2004, 10:13 +0200, where RO> I live), you wrote: T>> The basic idea is I have a free learn to play guitar email course, that I T>> want to send out to subscribers over a period of days. There are 7 T>> lessons and ideally each lesson would get sent one per day. As new T>> students come on aboard they start with lesson one and progress up to T>> seven. RO> Create seven AB groups (let's call them lesson1-7) RO> Create a filter that sends an autoresponder to new subscribers of your RO> course saying something like "Welcome, you'll get your free lessons RO> seven days on a row around 17:00 -0500 GMT" and puts the subscriber RO> address in AB group lesson1. RO> Create seven outgoing filters that check for outgoing lessons and RO> delete the addresses from AB group lesson1 and insert them into RO> lesson2 when they get lesson1. When you're sending them lesson2, RO> you'll have move them one up, but I guess you've got the idea. RO> Now create a batch file (when you're not familiar with batch files see RO> http://gatsby.tafe.tas.edu.au/batch/) called guitarschool.bat RO> Insert seven commands like: RO> C:\Program Files\The Bat!\thebat.exe /mailU=MyAccount;T=c:\guitarschool\lesson1.txt RO> Create seven lessonX.txt files RO> Those seven text files are to be setup as templates, you set yourself RO> as to address, you bcc it to your correct AB group, you set a proper RO> subject and you include the lesson in it. RO> Now you create a task in the Windows Scheduler that executes the RO> guitarschool.bat every day at 17:00 (or whatever time you prefer, just RO> mention that time in your first autoresponder) RO> As it is bad form to send messages to multiple people not knowing each RO> other in such a way that they can see each other's addresses, I RO> advised your own address in the to header and the other addresses in RO> bcc, this means you'll receive seven lessons every day, so you'd RO> better create an incoming filter that deletes them. RO> As you're sending your seven messages every day, I can imagine that RO> after a while (when you've checked that your setup works) you RO> configure your outgoing filters such that they delete the lessons too. RO> When you would be using a more recent version of TB you could have RO> done without the batch file and changed the external templates with RO> quick templates, since you could've used TB's internal scheduler, but RO> a setup like above should work. RO> Play around with this. RO> BTW As you're using TB 1.61 I feel obliged to say that while TB has RO> marched on till 3.0.1.33 you can still use 1.62r on the same license RO> as you've got and that version is still available for download at: RO> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/download.php ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
