Re: Need help sending emails.
Re: Need help sending emails.
- Subject: Re: Need help sending emails.
- From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:07:38 +1100
On 27/11/2010, at 1:31 PM, Jeff Gold wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have been using Applescript to send emails from our website using a special scripting package for AppleScript called 24U Email OSAX. Information about the product is available here: http://www.24usoftware.com/EmailOSAX
>
> Does anyone else have experience using this product? It seems to work well, but I think it has some sort of bug which causes it to crash fairly frequently. We need a good scripting solution, so I want to see what other options are out there which might be more reliable. Any suggestions?
>
> We will soon be using AppleScript or something similar to send emails for a large international animal rescue organization with over 150,000 subscribers. Whatever we use, therefore, needs to be fast, simple and reliable.
>
> I know you can script Apple Mail, but given the huge volume of emails we will be sending, that doesn't seem like the best option. We don't want the emails saved, we just want something to send them. We also need something with the capability of adding attachments and custom headers.
>
> Someone once suggested Python to me, but I haven't tried that. Anyone with experience using that, or any other option, which would be good for scripting large volumes of email messages to be sent out to our animal rescue subscribers?
>
> Best wishes,
>
G'day Jeff
It's possible to script Mail to send out bulk mail, with pre-prepared headers and attachments. I've done it for a client, with a fixed header and footer, and attachments after the footer.
I would imagine tho that if you want the attachments embedded in certain parts of the email, that would be a bit of script altering on each occasion.
The email list can be lifted from the Address book, or should be able to be lifted from a spreadsheet, which I haven't done.
Regards
Santa
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And it is this......
Existence that multiplied itself
For sheer delight of being
And plunged with numberless trillions of forms
So that it might
find
itself
innumerably
Sri Aurobindo
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