[FX.php List] Approach to User initiated mass mail capability

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Hi Folks,

I looking to remove myself from the middle... between client's FMP 
data and the need send occasional mass mailings.  Up to this point, I 
have been the producing custom html emailings using SMTPIt.

I have created email campaign creation screens that allow authorized 
users to specify email subject and email content.  For the latter, I 
am using web based WYSIWYGPro that allows creation of HTML code.  I 
have  a test mode that sends test emails back to the sender. Finally, 
I allow the user to select all or a portion of the entire list.

The question is how to save, queue and send email jobs once they have 
been created.

At this point in the testing, I have simply sent the emails with a 
foreach statement that immediately sends the emails found by an 
fx.php query.  The script ties up the user's browser until the send 
is complete.

This might be fine for a handful of recipients, but not 100's to 1000's.

I'm thinking of using an array saved to a flat file, and perhaps a 
cron job to look for queued send jobs...although I have not tried 
this before.

Does this sound right?

Thanks

Jonathan


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Jonathan Schwartz
Exit 445 Group
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