[AccessD] HTML personalized mass mail

Hi Gustav:

Andy and I put together a mini-app on the DBA site when creating a web-ring.
We used ASP-Mail, a free, or a least it was, mail server/client package. I
personally use PHP mail as the price is right and it can be ran on anything
that can run IIS. IIS use to be able to downloaded for free. Since XP
Professional and 2000 it is no longer available but it is part of those OSs.
I use to run IIS on my Win98SE box until it required a rebuild and never
bothered to install it again. The mailing part is simple to setup and only
requires about 30 lines of code to run.

If you want to go that route I can send you the code.

Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:32 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] HTML personalized mass mail

Hi all

The client wish to move from general mass e-mail (Dear customer ..) in
plain text to personalized e-mail (Dear Mrs. Harkins ..) in HTML
format.

I know all about getting Access to generate e-mails and have them
mailed but how to create the body of the e-mail in HTML format? Also,
the e-mail must contain a part in plain text which will be shown to
those receivers not having a mail client with HTML reader.

My thought is to have the client's advertising agency creating a
template with a "field" - some unique search word which I can search for
and replace with the actual customer's name as it carries no purpose to
have the Access app build the e-mail from scratch.

Has anyone done something similar?

/gustav
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