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size=2>David</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=835294806-31072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Excuse
my ignorance but I don't understand the impliction of using sockets rather than
mapi. Could you explain? What is the impact regarding the customer's email
client? Does it get bypassed? If so where is the record of what got
successfully sent? It might be very useful because I'm concerned about the
sheer volume of emails which would build up in the Sent Items
folder.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Andy Lacey<BR><A
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>David
Phelan<BR><B>Sent:</B> 31 July 2003 02:44<BR><B>To:</B> Access Developers
discussion and problem solving<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [AccessD] HTML Email
from Access<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=343313701-31072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Andy,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=343313701-31072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
have code which I use in a small vb app I wrote to send monthly reports. It
uses sockets instead of mapi and is set up for command-line use. The body of
the email is sent in html and the code could be adapted to work in your
situation. Let me know off-line if you'd like the code.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Andy
Lacey<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 30, 2003 7:25 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Stuart
McLachlan;
"accessd@databaseadvisors.com"@smithers.nildram.co.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[AccessD] HTML Email from Access<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Hi Stuart<BR>Thanks for
the reply.<BR>I'm about to visit a potential new client who is looking to
replace an off-the-shelf contact management system withan Access app. Good
news for me I hope. Anyway one of the requirements is to be able to prepare
HTML emails (text and pics and anything else I guess) with, in effect, field
placemarks (e.g. [CustomerName] or whatever). It then has to do an
"emailmerge" between the HTML and the data and send to all on his list. Does
that make sense? What do you think?<BR><BR>I've kept this on-list for now as
it better explains (I hope) what I'm trying to do and there may be others
out there who can help or want to see where the discussion
leads.<BR><BR>--<BR>Andy
Lacey<BR>http://www.minstersystems.co.uk<BR><BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">--------- Original Message --------<BR>From:
"Stuart McLachlan" <stuart@lexacorp.com.pg><BR>To: "Andy Lacey"
<andy@minstersystems.co.uk>, "accessd@databaseadvisors.com"
<accessd@databaseadvisors.com><BR>Subject: Re: [AccessD] HTML Email
from Access<BR>Date: 30/07/03 11:03<BR><BR><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><BR>On 30 Jul 2003 at 11:37, Andy Lacey wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>>
Morning all<BR>> Any one have any experience of sending out HTML
email-shots from<BR>> within Access. I already use automation to drive
Outlook but have<BR>> only ever sent text emails. How would I (or more
likely the user)<BR>> format HTML emails? In Word or what? And how
would I merge data fom<BR>> the Access database with it ("Hi Bill" etc)
and send them via<BR>> Outlook? Any ideas? Anyone doing it already? Any
guidance would be<BR>> gratefully received.<BR>><BR><BR>I do it in a
number of different ways.<BR><BR>I have a small PB application which
interrogates a Contact list and<BR>sends out to everyone with a certain
"category" in the the contacts<BR>list. It is designed to compose the html
mail in Outlook which is<BR>then saved to a HTML file.<BR><BR>I've also
done it by creating a report and using Docmd.SendObject to<BR>each one in
turn with a single page report output as HTML.<BR><BR>Email me off-list
with more info on exactly what you are trying to do<BR>and I'll fire
something through to you.<BR><BR>(I do it under protest for a client , but
I personally have an<BR>aversion to html emails
<g>)<BR><BR><BR>--<BR>Lexacorp Ltd<BR><A class=autolink
href="http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/"
target=_blank>http://www.lexacorp.com.pg</A><BR>Information Technology
Consultancy, Software
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