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I want to create a info emailer for company news,What is the best
way,cgi,asp,php??????. Is there an automatic mailer like when you put in your
email address its mails it to you
 
Well, james, so far you've told us that you want people to receive email
from you. Can you provide us with more information about the requirements?
For example, where do the email addresses come from (how are you going to
obtain them)? Do you want to send emails as a result of filling out a form,
or at some time interval? Where is the content of the emails supposed to
come from? Anything that is specific about your requirements will help.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
but it takes a very long time,
and the bicycle has to *want* to change.
 
Ok ,lets say theres a section that says sign up for news and you input your
email and it sends you a news letter about the company(sale,etc)Im sure this
is server side but lets say like macromedia sends me specials about products
cause Ive signed up for there newsletter
Any help, Is this a product I have to look for
 
Hi james,

There may be a product; I don't know. I can give you the basics of what you
need to do, and some links to good articles, tutorials, etc., to help you
learn how to do it.

Your first requirement is that you create a form that collects email
information and adds the data to a database. If your site is hosted on a
Windows server, you can use the Database Results Wizard to set up an Access
database, and use ASP to do this. The following web site has quite a few
articles about how to use the DRW:

http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/dbrwtipsandtricks.asp

Once you've got your database, you have a couple of options. You can either
send out the emails using Access, by downloading a copy of the database, and
using Access and perhaps Word to do a mail merge, or whatever suits you. Or,
you can create an ASP web page that you can run to send the emails (a bit
trickier). The ASP page would fetch all the emails from the database, create
an email, and send it using (probably) CDOSYS, an email client component
that comes with Office and Windows XP.

Perhaps someone else knows of a ready-made solution for you. Good luck!

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
but it takes a very long time,
and the bicycle has to *want* to change.
 
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