RE: Please advise on scriptable email
RE: Please advise on scriptable email
- Subject: RE: Please advise on scriptable email
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 01:40:36 EDT
Wim,
you might want to take a look at this month's MacWorld
(US Edition), which discusses the benefits and drawback to
various email applications. You may be able to find the
relevant articles at www.macworld.com (see: Andy Ihnatko's
"E-mail Options Aplenty", plus a review of MailSmith 1.5,
and of the XServe). Additionally, you fail to mention which
type of machine the new mac unit(s) will be: if you're
running a XServe (thinblade Apple Server under OS X), a
single machine should be able to easily handle all your
emails across multiple (or in your case, single?) accounts
with room to spare. Usually in cases where the emails are
clogging, it isn't the machine, but rather the bandwidth
coming into and out of the unit (modem/DSL/cable/ISDN/etc),
since by definition, the machine is almost infinitely
faster than the connection.
For MacWorld articles specific to your search, visit:
http://www.macworld.com/subject/web-email/
Meanwhile, it sounds like it's time for you to look at
setting up an email server, although you might be able to
get away with simply adding more machines and making sure
the reply to address for all of them is set to the same
address (is it really important that they all send from a
single account, or strictly that responses all flow back to
a single account?). A feature called LDAP common to many
email servers (and some email applications) allows the
entire organization to share a common address book. Or, the
same data can be stored locally in a database such as
FileMaker Pro (or as a series of text files, say BBEdit),
and that can be used to generate emails.
Oh, and for the record, if I catch you spamming me, I will
crash your unit if I can just for fun (and not for profit
-- yet -- only because there isn't an anti-spam benevolence
league that offers rewards for such things yet: donations
accepted).
Best Wishes,
=-= Marc Glasgow
Wim wrote:
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We're still working with one email computer at the office,
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running Claris Emailer. Surrounding this are a number of
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applescripts for various automatic stuff, such as sending
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out our mailing list and mainting its addresses, and
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periodically archiving all mail in a filemaker database.
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Problem is, one email computer doesn't cut it anymore. So
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I'm starting to look for an email server. What we need is:
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- Something that works like a central database, ie people
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can access and use it from different computers.
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- No individual accounts for users, just the one account
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that's accessible from everywhere.
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- All messages are always stored in the host and remain
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there; email clients are strictly browsers that don't store
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anything in their own client computers.
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- Must run on OS9, but an option for OSX would be a bonus.
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- No HTML mail, sucking text out of HTML messages is a
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bonus though. (Claris Emailer stores HTML mail in
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attachments, which is awkward and the only complaint I have
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about its fuctionality).
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- The usual, such as labeling, filtering.
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- And of course: good applescript support.
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(The 'no individual accounts' is because of the large
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number of part-timers we have; everyone needs to be able to
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access all mail.)
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I don't have a clue about email servers yet, so if anyone
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has a good tip to solve our problem, I'd love to hear about
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it!
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Thanks, Wim
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