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From: Neil Gould on 23 May 2008 08:17 Hi all, Thanks for the suggestions for our club's initial bulkmail sending routines. I did read up on the use of ASP vs. a separate COM app such as ASPEmail, and determined that for our club's purposes the ASP code that loops through the data and sends individual messages vs. BCC performs adequately for simple messaging. The next phase is to email the club's newsletter, which is in PDF format, and I've run into the problem that CDO errors out because it doesn't recognize the format using the basic config settings. In sifting through the MSDN's CDO content and other sources I found some references that would permit attaching .txt and .gif files, but not for PDFs. Does anyone here know of a concise and relatively complete reference to such things as cdoConfig settings, or better, a solution to this specific problem? TIA, Neil
From: Adrienne Boswell on 24 May 2008 13:19 Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Gould" <neil(a)terratu.com> writing in news:eU8HpaMvIHA.5472(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: > Hi all, > > Thanks for the suggestions for our club's initial bulkmail sending > routines. I did read up on the use of ASP vs. a separate COM app such > as ASPEmail, and determined that for our club's purposes the ASP code > that loops through the data and sends individual messages vs. BCC > performs adequately for simple messaging. > > The next phase is to email the club's newsletter, which is in PDF > format, and I've run into the problem that CDO errors out because it > doesn't recognize the format using the basic config settings. In > sifting through the MSDN's CDO content and other sources I found some > references that would permit attaching .txt and .gif files, but not > for PDFs. Does anyone here know of a concise and relatively complete > reference to such things as cdoConfig settings, or better, a solution > to this specific problem? > > TIA, > > Neil > > > Your best bet is to send a plain text email with a link to the relavent PDF file. -- Adrienne Boswell at Home Arbpen Web Site Design Services http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info Please respond to the group so others can share
From: Neil Gould on 24 May 2008 17:07 Hi Adrienne, Recently, Adrienne Boswell <arbpen(a)yahoo.com> posted: > Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Gould" <neil(a)terratu.com> > [...] >> >> The next phase is to email the club's newsletter, which is in PDF >> format, and I've run into the problem that CDO errors out because it >> doesn't recognize the format using the basic config settings. In >> sifting through the MSDN's CDO content and other sources I found some >> references that would permit attaching .txt and .gif files, but not >> for PDFs. Does anyone here know of a concise and relatively complete >> reference to such things as cdoConfig settings, or better, a solution >> to this specific problem? >> > > Your best bet is to send a plain text email with a link to the > relavent PDF file. > Thanks for your thoughts... but, why do you think this is the best bet? Regards, Neil
From: Adrienne Boswell on 24 May 2008 18:34 Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Gould" <neil(a)terratu.com> writing in news:#pv3MndvIHA.5584(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > Hi Adrienne, > > Recently, Adrienne Boswell <arbpen(a)yahoo.com> posted: > >> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Gould" <neil(a)terratu.com> >> [...] >>> >>> The next phase is to email the club's newsletter, which is in PDF >>> format, and I've run into the problem that CDO errors out because it >>> doesn't recognize the format using the basic config settings. In >>> sifting through the MSDN's CDO content and other sources I found some >>> references that would permit attaching .txt and .gif files, but not >>> for PDFs. Does anyone here know of a concise and relatively complete >>> reference to such things as cdoConfig settings, or better, a solution >>> to this specific problem? >>> >> >> Your best bet is to send a plain text email with a link to the >> relavent PDF file. >> > Thanks for your thoughts... but, why do you think this is the best bet? > > Regards, > > Neil > > > > Attachments take a while to download, and no other mail can be retrieved until the entire message has been downloaded. Sending a text message with a link to the relavent PDF file allows the user to get other mail while going to the address specified and either opening or saving the PDF file (Firefox has an extension to view PDF documents as HTML, opening or saving). I would even go so far as to say that the newsletter would be better off done as an HTML page, much less to download, open, etc. If you make a template, you can save the content in a database, and serve the newsletter like any other page, including navigation, links to other documents, etc. You can create a form for inputting the newsletter content, and output it as HTML if you wanted to send a multipart HTML/Plain text newsletter. You can even archive these newsletters. -- Adrienne Boswell at Home Arbpen Web Site Design Services http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info Please respond to the group so others can share
From: Mike Brind [MVP] on 25 May 2008 04:18 "Neil Gould" <neil(a)terratu.com> wrote in message news:eU8HpaMvIHA.5472(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Hi all, > > Thanks for the suggestions for our club's initial bulkmail sending > routines. I did read up on the use of ASP vs. a separate COM app such as > ASPEmail, and determined that for our club's purposes the ASP code that > loops through the data and sends individual messages vs. BCC performs > adequately for simple messaging. > > The next phase is to email the club's newsletter, which is in PDF format, > and I've run into the problem that CDO errors out because it doesn't > recognize the format using the basic config settings. In sifting through > the MSDN's CDO content and other sources I found some references that > would permit attaching .txt and .gif files, but not for PDFs. Does anyone > here know of a concise and relatively complete reference to such things as > cdoConfig settings, or better, a solution to this specific problem? > Have you not tried the AddAttachment method? http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art29374.asp -- Mike Brind Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET
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