The following is a conversation with another coder who almost finished this outlook 07 mailing addin. He lost his internet connection and can't get it back try to read and follow. I will send you the almost completed app when I accept your bid. It is 95% completed. I do not have the source code just the app itself.
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![][1]But can you tell me if you know if there is away to have recurring emails sent out in outlook 07.
I know I can schedule and email to go out at a later date but this is what I am needing to do.
I have a list of 6 thousand agents that I want to send a recurring message to but in a slow trickle not a blast. And I am limited to 200 emails addresses per email message. So I want to set up 10 emails that say the same things and schedule them to go out 1 hour apart. I know how to do this but i can't figure out how to make the same message go out again to the same 200 agents in that email 10 days later.
It is a message that needs to go out to the same people every 10 days but I do not want to have to set up 6000/200 per email = 30 emails for each time i want them to go out. I have tried to find recurring email in the schedule but can figure it out.
Thanks
Coder
Hi
I can make the described functionality with no problem. So, you want the app to send e-mail message to a big list of addresses by little portions and do it every 10 days. Tell me if I understand it right.
I'll provide few options in the settings dialog:
- List of recipients (can include distlists and single e-mails)
- Big interval value (e.g. 10 days)
- Short interval value (e.g. 1 hour)
- Entire message (please tell me if it will be a mailitem from Outlook or you need a little composer window)
Me
List of recipients (can include distlists and single e-mails)
I need to be able to add a list of 6000 to 7000 addresses from the excel list attached to this message. But let's look ahead on this project and try to make it expandable before you build it. I want to use it to set up this mailing but also if I decide to get another list of addresses and want to mail them the same way but a different message.
So I need it to let me pick the excel 07 list of addresses OR a dist list in outlook OR a few single email addresses I type in separated by commas.
I want to be able to enter the number of email addresses I want it to select from the excel 07 list or outlook dist list and put in each message.
By this I mean I ISP will only let me put 200 email addresses in one email but if I switch ISPs I may be able to do 500 or only 50. So I need a field to type in how many email addresses to put in each message. Then I need it to look at the list I have picked and if there are 1000 email addresses and I have told it to put 150 email addresses in each message it will make 6 messages containing 150 email addresses and know to make 1 message with the remaining 100 email addresses. Then I need to be able to set the short time interval to however many minutes I want like 60 minutes. This will tell it to send out each message 60 minutes apart so I won't piss off my isp. Then I need to set the "Recurring time" in days. Like if I put in 10 it will send each of the messages again 10 days later and 60 minutes apart.
Also I need to to look at the Unsubscribe list you made for me so it does not send to anyone on that list.
- Entire message (please tell me if it will be a mailitem from Outlook or you need a little composer window)
I would like to just use outlook's mail item cause in it I can set the mail account I want it to be sent from.
Coder
1. I don't know how to handle if I have run the app and have 1000 emails broken up into say 5 emails and later find I want to add another 50 email addresses to the 1000. If the app has already made the 5 messages and made them recurring every 10 days we need to figure out how to get those 50 new ones in there. I think the only way is for me to go to the message and delete it and rerun the app. To do this I think each primary email will need a naming method so if I have to delete I can go to the "Message Name/Label" and say delete this message and all recurring messages with this name. You will have to tell me what to do.
2. i may have mentioned this. i need all mailings to compare and remove emails addresses that match the "Unsubscribe" group you made.
Thanks
ME
ok i am learning how to use it. i can't figure out how to make the email message that i want to go out. I tried making one and delaying send and then I click "pick item" button but there is nothing in the pick item window.
Sorry it works fine so far I just need to learn the message making part.
i like the approach very much
thank you
Coder
Oh, sorry, I forgot to describe how to use it
The "Pick item" form shows all messages within "Drafts" folder, so place the desired item there and then pick it
If you have any questions, please list them and I'll answer immediately, see you :)
One more thing... For now, the "Accounts" option is not used, but will follow in a couple of days.
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