Automated email utility recommendations

[Joe Yoder]

This could be VFP or otherwise - not sure if there should be [NF] in the
header?

I have two tasks I would like to automate:

1. Send several hundred .JPG files in a local folder as email
attachments one at a time.
2. Convert an Email to an image and send it to an email address as an
attachment.

Any suggestions welcome!

Thanks in advance

Joe


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[Kevin J Cully]

Hey Joe,

I'm hearing a Ted-ism coming along as a "It depends", but ...

1. For sending massive amounts of individual emails to external email addresses, look at a service such as Mandrill. (https://mandrill.com/) It costs money but will keep your domain from getting black-listed, keeping you from sending out emails in the future.

2. For converting documents to an image, look either at ImageMagick or HTMLToPDF.

Hope this helps. Let us know what you decide to do with your project.

-Kevin


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This could be VFP or otherwise - not sure if there should be [NF] in the header?

I have two tasks I would like to automate:

1. Send several hundred .JPG files in a local folder as email
attachments one at a time.
2. Convert an Email to an image and send it to an email address as an
attachment.

Any suggestions welcome!

Thanks in advance

Joe


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[Ted Roche]

Post by Kevin J Cully
I'm hearing a Ted-ism coming along as a "It depends", but ...

Pretty much the whole point of the forum, isn't it? ;)
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[Joe Yoder]

Thanks Kevin - Mandrill would certainly handle the volume but their
minimum of 25,000 per month is overkill. My current folder of less than
1000 represents a whole years worth of files. Going forward I expect less
than 50 per month.
Another approach would be to find a vendor who could receive all the files
in a single zip and send them out one at a time. I'm waiting to hear from
the recipient if there is a limit on how many files I can send in a day or
i they have a better way to handle an entire folder at a time.

Post by Kevin J Cully
Hey Joe,
I'm hearing a Ted-ism coming along as a "It depends", but ...
1. For sending massive amounts of individual emails to external email
addresses, look at a service such as Mandrill. (https://mandrill.com/)
It costs money but will keep your domain from getting black-listed, keeping
you from sending out emails in the future.
2. For converting documents to an image, look either at ImageMagick or HTMLToPDF.
Hope this helps. Let us know what you decide to do with your project.
-Kevin
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 12:24 PM
Subject: Automated email utility recommendations
This could be VFP or otherwise - not sure if there should be [NF] in the header?
1. Send several hundred .JPG files in a local folder as email
attachments one at a time.
2. Convert an Email to an image and send it to an email address as an
attachment.
Any suggestions welcome!
Thanks in advance
Joe
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[Ted Roche]

If there is a single recipient, could you share a folder in Dropbox,
OneDrive, GoogleDrive? That can be set up private 1:1 or 1:many. Or,
since these are pictures, a private album in Flickr or the like?

Post by Joe Yoder
Thanks Kevin - Mandrill would certainly handle the volume but their
minimum of 25,000 per month is overkill. My current folder of less than
1000 represents a whole years worth of files. Going forward I expect less
than 50 per month.
Another approach would be to find a vendor who could receive all the files
in a single zip and send them out one at a time. I'm waiting to hear from
the recipient if there is a limit on how many files I can send in a day or
i they have a better way to handle an entire folder at a time.

Post by Kevin J Cully
Hey Joe,
I'm hearing a Ted-ism coming along as a "It depends", but ...
1. For sending massive amounts of individual emails to external email
addresses, look at a service such as Mandrill. (https://mandrill.com/)
It costs money but will keep your domain from getting black-listed, keeping
you from sending out emails in the future.
2. For converting documents to an image, look either at ImageMagick or HTMLToPDF.
Hope this helps. Let us know what you decide to do with your project.
-Kevin
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 12:24 PM
Subject: Automated email utility recommendations
This could be VFP or otherwise - not sure if there should be [NF] in the header?
1. Send several hundred .JPG files in a local folder as email
attachments one at a time.
2. Convert an Email to an image and send it to an email address as an
attachment.
Any suggestions welcome!
Thanks in advance
Joe
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[John Weller]

I use a piece of code from sweetpotato.com which works well.

John Weller
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[Joe Yoder]

John - I think you mean SweetPotatoSoftware.com. It looks like there are a
lot of options there. Care to share which one you are using or started
from? - Joe

Post by John Weller
I use a piece of code from sweetpotato.com which works well.
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07976 393631

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[Joe Yoder]

Kevin - The issue is that the site that needs to end up with the files has
only two known ways to receive images: One at a time selection from their
web app or one at a time via email attachment. This is probably their way
to limit the volume of images they get. Perhaps they will reply to my
inquiry that they can handle a zipped batch for a fee. That would be fine
by me. - Joe

Post by Joe Yoder
John - I think you mean SweetPotatoSoftware.com. It looks like there are
a lot of options there. Care to share which one you are using or started
from? - Joe

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I use a piece of code from sweetpotato.com which works well.
John Weller
01380 723235
07976 393631

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[John Weller]

Hi Joe,

I use the CDOSys one as it suits my purpose. I use a generic gmail account rather than my personal one so can't use BLAT or SMTP without using stunnel or similar. It works just fine. If you can use a business account then SMTP is the way to go (or so Ted says 😊 )

Regards

John

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Post by Kevin J Cully
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Sent: 05 March 2018 19:15
Subject: Re: Automated email utility recommendations
John - I think you mean SweetPotatoSoftware.com. It looks like there are a
lot of options there. Care to share which one you are using or started from? -
Joe

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[Kevin J Cully]

I suggest looking at this another way. Basically, you're paying $20 per month to send up to 25,000 emails. That still sounds like a good deal to me to protect your domain from being blacklisted.

The above really applies if you're sending to many different customers. If you're sending to a limited clientele, then in addition to Dropbox, you may want to check out Syncthing. https://syncthing.net/ The price is right.

-Kevin


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Thanks Kevin - Mandrill would certainly handle the volume but their minimum of 25,000 per month is overkill. My current folder of less than
1000 represents a whole years worth of files. Going forward I expect less than 50 per month.
Another approach would be to find a vendor who could receive all the files in a single zip and send them out one at a time. I'm waiting to hear from the recipient if there is a limit on how many files I can send in a day or i they have a better way to handle an entire folder at a time.

Post by Kevin J Cully
Hey Joe,
I'm hearing a Ted-ism coming along as a "It depends", but ...
1. For sending massive amounts of individual emails to external email
addresses, look at a service such as Mandrill. (https://mandrill.com/)
It costs money but will keep your domain from getting black-listed,
keeping you from sending out emails in the future.
2. For converting documents to an image, look either at ImageMagick
or HTMLToPDF.
Hope this helps. Let us know what you decide to do with your project.
-Kevin
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 12:24 PM
Subject: Automated email utility recommendations
This could be VFP or otherwise - not sure if there should be [NF] in the header?
1. Send several hundred .JPG files in a local folder as email
attachments one at a time.
2. Convert an Email to an image and send it to an email address as an
attachment.
Any suggestions welcome!
Thanks in advance
Joe
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