trillium Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Does anyone here use dacons mail.it???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brich Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Yes Both version 2.5 (internal) and Version 3 (external clients). Both work fine with Filemaker 7, 8 and 9 client for us. We use 2.5 for mass mailing from a database, constructing dynamic e-mails for each customer. Works file with plain text and file attachements - not exercised it with HTML mail but see no reason why it shouldn't work. Version 3 has a better structure to setting up and using a mail. Unfortunately it isn't backwards compatible with 2.5 so you have to work with different code for each version. We may go to version 3 but are also using Scodigo's Smart Pill, which allows you to use PHP to send mail, and may stick with that instead. We have a 2 meg leased line to our ISP, so sending bulk e-mails is not a problem. Might be an issue with a lower speed ADSL line. HTH Brian ruralnet|uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trillium Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 Interesting to hear ...... we use version 3.0 as a mail client with Filemaker as our message database...... it works well but we have issues with mail "forwarding" and "replying to all" causing mail scripts to loop and add mail attachments or multiple addresses.......... dacons say there's nothing wrong ! Yes Both version 2.5 (internal) and Version 3 (external clients). Both work fine with Filemaker 7, 8 and 9 client for us. We use 2.5 for mass mailing from a database, constructing dynamic e-mails for each customer. Works file with plain text and file attachements - not exercised it with HTML mail but see no reason why it shouldn't work. Version 3 has a better structure to setting up and using a mail. Unfortunately it isn't backwards compatible with 2.5 so you have to work with different code for each version. We may go to version 3 but are also using Scodigo's Smart Pill, which allows you to use PHP to send mail, and may stick with that instead. We have a 2 meg leased line to our ISP, so sending bulk e-mails is not a problem. Might be an issue with a lower speed ADSL line. HTH Brian ruralnet|uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brich Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Which version of Filemaker are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brich Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Sorry, I meant which to ask which version you are using to develop with - do you have access to Filemaker Advanced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trillium Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 we have 8.5 advanced.......... but we aren't the ones developing ! Sorry, I meant which to ask which version you are using to develop with - do you have access to Filemaker Advanced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brich Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 (Sorry not to reply sooner, the e-mail advising of your post had got into my spam box) If you have 8.5 advanced available, can you reproduce the looping problem when stepping through the script that does the forward or reply to actions? Do you error trap after EACH step that calls the plug-in and check the return codes? Try introducing a deliberate delay between subsequent mails. We use a one second pause between mails, which was introduced because the plug-in would hang if you let it work flat out. We put this down to latency with our mail host, but perhaps it is the plug-in. Slows the overall system down a bit, but it does keep our marketing team in check when it comes to sending lots of mail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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